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Imagine that you do not have a fancy graphics monitor and card, in fact. all you have is a text only old unix terminal. What could you do?  How about a video: (ascii terminals do not have sound but it certainly can be included, but I misplaced that version of the video. Or you could play a neat 2d looks like 3d text adventure game. http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Oracle/step7/Bonus-game-2-Akalabeth-Re-Bourne/ or you could even do lots of other things. http://www.instructables.com/id/Graphics-in-a-text-world/

First attempt at merging video and audio. Pretty easy with ffmpeg on Linux. The chess video is no longer a silent film. Microsoft allegedly has an equivalent ffmpeg. ffmpeg may also be known as libav or avconv. $ ffmpeg -i git.mp3 -i chess.flv  chess.mp4 Pretty lucky here as the video and the movie were about the same length. Being a film editor must be fun, We will do more complicated stuff later. Makes for much respect for noted film maker Ken Burns and all his crew. Do not have a guitar anymore, but again that was me playing the guitar.

In honor of Dennis Ritchie passing, we are watching movies from ascii only terminals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=UenUUP2GM4g