The only user instructions are: click to fast forward.
Star Wars Asciimation was built using a Java program to display a sequence of simple ASCII text screens to do the animation. The author is Simon Jansen and his website was www.asciimation.co.nz, but has been down for some time now. Luckily, we found someone who had downloaded it before it disappeared. Now you can enjoy it!
This version of swplay.jar is dated October 13, 1999. If you have a newer version, or know how to contact the author, please email the source.