Amiga Banner

The Amiga platform never came with that fancy banner tool that was available on UNIX systems, I was massively impressed by it (I have no idea why!), so I decided to write my own. I later converted it for MS-DOS and about ten years later I made it actually compile in GNU’s cc.

The source code is very BASIC, lacking in switch blocks and even contains a goto for good measure. Inferior to the Linux banner in every way, the output looks like this:

gaz@desktop:~/svn/misc/tools/banner/SOURCE$ ./banner Test
 
 ######  ######   #####  ######
   ##    ##      ##   ##   ##
   ##    ##      ###       ##
   ##    #####    #####    ##
   ##    ##         ####   ##
   ##    ##      ##   ##   ##
   ##    ######   #####    ##

I doubt it is useful to anyone, but you can get the source code and a Windows binary anyway.