[HN Gopher] Amiga ASCII Art
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Amiga ASCII Art
Author : california-og
Score : 198 points
Date : 2023-10-22 05:45 UTC (1 days ago)
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| phs318u wrote:
| Couldn't wipe the smile from this old man's face scrolling down
| the production part of the thesis.
| nmg wrote:
| I forgot there were column/line restrictions on FILE_ID.DIZ files
| kleiba wrote:
| Note to the tldr; crowd: scroll down to the final "colly", a long
| scroll of ASCII art, which is well worth reading. It's extremely
| impressive.
| nielsbot wrote:
| it's inspired art
| bronikowski wrote:
| I've spent many nice evenings reading collies sent to me on disk
| by demoscene friends. Ah, it was so long ago...
| markx2 wrote:
| The ASCII art I best remember was in Usenet signatures.
|
| Elaborately done, usually to represent their username and HUGE.
|
| I would snip conversations where appropriate but never an ASCII
| sig. They were just too good.
| nathell wrote:
| There's an online museum of signatures collected from the
| Polish Usenet here: https://hell.pl/nina/newssigs/newssigs.htm
| anthk wrote:
| alt.ascii-art it's still alive.
|
| Also, gopher://ascii.mozz.us:7070/1/ has some links to art.
| neilv wrote:
| In addition to BBS, online text file, and earlier computer ASCII
| art, there was also IRC, where ASCII art would typically fit
| within a few lines.
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| Sometimes there were add-on scripts for IRC clients to generate
| these.
|
| I got carried away with an IRC client I wrote, and added a bunch
| of ASCII art as standard commands. For example, one command would
| send ASCII art of an airplane towing a banner with the user-
| provided message.
| smokel wrote:
| Figure 12 illustrates how infuriatingly bad ASCII art looked on
| the IBM PC.
|
| I used to run a utility in my AUTOEXEC.BAT that installed the
| Amiga font in the character ROM, but it still felt like we PC
| guys missed out on most of the cool stuff. And guess who won?
| hahamrfunnyguy wrote:
| Very true, we did miss out. The Amgia folks were sure to let us
| know about it any time we went to a BBS meet too! I did all my
| BBSing on a DOS PC. There was cool "newschool" ASCII and ANSI
| art designed for PCs too. At the time it felt magical opening
| up an art pack or a demo with chiptune music. Experiencing the
| underground coding and art scene definitely influenced my life
| a lot.
| monitron wrote:
| Wow, thank you for this. Today I learned why the slash-and-
| underscore ASCII art I came across looked so underwhelming on my
| PC, and that others were seeing it in all its glorious cohesion.
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| The profile a person (in the final colly and elsewhere in the
| article) is at least from 1948. "The Boy Mechanic" featured an
| article on "keyboard art" with the same profile in the lower-
| right corner of the page:
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| https://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/keyboard-art.jp...
| california-og wrote:
| Good eye! I can't remember what was my initial inspiration
| (could have been the one you linked), but there is also a very
| similiar character in Pitman's typewriter manual (1893) which
| is featured in Barrie Tullett's Typewriter Art: A Modern
| Anthology.
|
| https://twitter.com/readermeter/status/570459976759676928
| jlundberg wrote:
| So cool and happy this is hitting the HN front page. :)
|
| For more amiga ascii, have a look at the group impure which keeps
| releasing new art to this date:
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| https://16colo.rs/group/impure
| berenddeperend wrote:
| I had never heard of collies before, this was fascinating! I'm
| very impressed with the finished product. The 'Baltic slime'
| graphic in particular was great.
| 01100011 wrote:
| Does anyone remember the name of the 1-bit, bitmapped art you
| could get in the Amiga terminal? I seemed to remember you would
| just cat a text file and graphics would appear.
| xmm wrote:
| Yes. The Amiga text terminal allowed you to shift the top and
| left margin by single pixels using escape codes. After
| shifting, writing new text would not overwrite pixels outside
| the character cell, so by writing a line of text, and then
| shifting the margin down one pixel, writing another line of
| text, etc. you could get a complete bitmap image displayed.
| 01100011 wrote:
| Thank you! I wish I knew what the technique was called. I'd
| love to see some old screenshots.
| damieng wrote:
| Surprised an article of this depth didn't mention that the Topaz
| font changed between Kickstart 1 and 2.
| hypercube33 wrote:
| I've always loved ASCII art and always get a bug to go hunt some
| old textfile down with really creative stuff in it just as a
| comfort thing I think.
|
| also let's point out the awesome design aesthetic this site has,
| wow!
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