ANSI art

Post #112,539 by orion 8/2/03 11:13:59 PM Reply	ANSI art Back before the web, there was ANSI art. Using character sets to create pictures and coloring them with ANSI or VT-100 codes. DOS used ANSI.SYS to use those codes, or a terminal program like Telix, Procomm, Qmodem, etc displayed them. They made pictures out of it, it is now a lost art. ANSI art was primative, but could be viewed at lower baud rates. I found this website which explains it and shows examples: [link\|http://ansiart.org.ua/index.php\|http://ansiart.org.ua/index.php]
Post #112,540 by Nightowl 8/2/03 11:17:46 PM Reply	Re: ANSI art Thank you Orion!!!!! That was what I didn't know how to say, and John was too tired to explain right now! Here is another site for a funny partial Star Wars in ASCII mode: "Big Star Wars fan? Got a few minutes to spare? Try a telnet to towel.blinkenlights.nl ! Yep, that's how we viewed the computer world before this web thingie came along!" Nightowl >8# "I learned to be the door, instead of the mat!" "illegitimi nil carborundum" Comment by Nightowl
Post #112,546 by pwhysall 8/3/03 3:43:46 AM Reply	Not a lost art... ...at least, the developers of BitchX don't think so. Google away! Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #112,665 by deSitter 8/4/03 2:45:51 PM Reply	same idea as antialiasing -drl
Post #112,691 by SpiceWare 8/4/03 5:35:51 PM Reply	PETSCII movies Commodore's version of ASCII was called PETSCII. It included cursor as color control characters. Quite a number of BBSes had "movies" that were done using PETSCII. - googling - ah, they were called C/G movies - scroll down to the section labeled Commodore Color/Graphics 'Movies' Disk Pack on [link\|http://www.portcommodore.com/commodore/files/bbsfiles.html\|this site] for a couple disk images for use with an emulator. One of the last changes I made to my BBS software was to add support ANSI translation PETSCII cursor and color codes. It worked well, though it was noticably slower when sending ANSI than PETSCII. A single PETSCII control character would translate to multiple characters in ANSI. Darrell Spice, Jr. [link\|http://www.spiceware.org/cgi-bin/spa.pl?album=./Artistic%20Overpass\|Artistic Overpass]\n[link\|http://www.spiceware.org/\|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Post #112,709 by orion 8/4/03 7:33:55 PM Reply	ATASCII Atari had their own codes for BBSes and etc. I wrote a C64 Terminal that used ATASCII to allow a C64 to do the ATASCII cursor codes and etc. You needed a special font to see the Atari block characters the way they did. It was a modification of the BASIC Terminal that came with the VicMODEM. Of course the Atari users didn't like the fact that I could view and log into their BBSes using ATASCII on a C64, so I eventually dropped it.
Post #112,727 by SpiceWare 8/4/03 11:11:27 PM Reply	same here My BBS software worked with my term program for music/joystick/sprites and so on. One of my buddies had an Atari BBS so i added ATASCII support. When I lived in Corpus Christi there were only a few BBSes online(mine was the 4th to go up) so everybody called them all. When I moved to Houston in the late 80s there were so many that they segretated. I called a few Atari BBSes in Houston but they were not pleased when they found out I was calling on a Commodore. Darrell Spice, Jr. [link\|http://www.spiceware.org/cgi-bin/spa.pl?album=./Artistic%20Overpass\|Artistic Overpass]\n[link\|http://www.spiceware.org/\|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Post #112,795 by orion 8/5/03 3:09:09 PM Reply	Platform Wars Yes usually the Atari and Commodore users didn't get along very well. Competing platforms. The Atari had more colors and a more advanced BASIC, but the Commodore had more tricks to it and an add-on Simon's BASIC. I remember a local group, The Wacko Cracko Brothers, modified C64s, they added more RAM, and updated the ROM to use a more advanced BASIC and RAM switching abilities to use 64K banks of RAM. I also remember modifying a few "Compute!" games for the C64, so that Balloon Blitz became Klingon Blitz and I turned the Balloon into a Klingon Bird of Prey.
Post #154,517 by radman 5/10/04 2:42:10 PM Reply	Re: ANSI art For those who have fond memories of ANSI art, I've put together a DVD called "Dark Domain: the artpacks.acid.org collection" which is packed full of ANSI, ASCII and RIPscrip graphics dating back to the late 80's current up to 2003. Yes, that's 4.2 gigabytes of ANSI... The URL for the ANSI art DVD is [link\|http://www.darkdomain.org/\|http://www.darkdomain.org/] Sadly, there is very little in the way of Commodore C/G animated movies or still-screen PETSCII art to be found. A google search usually results in people seeking them out and never finding them. So I've started what is presently a modest collection of CG textmode art, approximately 70 pieces so far. If anyone is interested in a copy or contributing to the collection just drop me a line... -- RaD Man / ACiD (radman@acid.org) Pilgrimage 2004 Compo Organizer [link\|http://pilgrimage.scene.org/\|http://pilgrimage.scene.org/]
Post #154,528 by folkert 5/10/04 4:34:42 PM 5/10/04 4:46:47 PM Reply	notSPAMnotSPAMnotSPAMnotSPAM Yes. I'll still have an order of SPAM, Eggs, Sausage and SPAM. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ i_wethey* Give a man a match, he'll be warm for a minute. Set him on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life! Edited by folkert May 10, 2004, 04:46:47 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #154,529 by admin 5/10/04 4:44:28 PM Reply	No, not really... Sure, he's selling a DVD, but he also directly addressed the PETSCII movies as well. SPAM is never this apropos. From the guidelines: In other words, if a question comes up and you sell a product that solves the problem, post it. Do not, however, simply spam the forums with off-topic advertisements, relevant to computers or not. Watch the hair-trigger there, Tex. ;-) Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."

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