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> Do you guys remember old ANSII graphics in computer games??

Nibbles ! :)

> I know that you can view ANSII [.ans] art in Internet Explorer.

AFAIK you can't - But you can view HTML coloured ascii-art.
If I'm wrong please tell me how you view it.

> How on earth do you make ANSII graphics, does anybody know? Is it litterally
> raw-coding an image?

It's just the text with ANSI colour escape codes.
Use a ANSI drawing program to colour the graphics - for drawing the artwork I
suggest JavE , but it can't colour the images because Markus (the programmer)
feels it makes it too easy to draw nice pictures and the art part therefore is
overlooked.
I disagree.
It's also tweaked for the ascii charset only .. and not the extended DOS charset
that many ansi-games used