I've revisited and modified a bit this funny toy. Added some ANSI color renditions (4, 8, 24 bit colors allowed), Added possibility to print big letters using Figlet-Fonts, and also added a script that allows you to quickly 'grab' ascii-arts, (copied from a web page for example) and past into your script in the form of a variable so that can be easily printed on the 'terminal'. (still presence of some flaws)
The new stuff is in the vdt folder (I will port asap also the example from the first post to this zip)
hope you have fun and ... happy new year everybody!
vdt.zip