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Amiga ASCII Art
- phs318u 3y agoCouldn't wipe the smile from this old man's face scrolling down the production part of the thesis.
- nmg 3y agoI forgot there were column/line restrictions on FILE_ID.DIZ files
- kleiba 3y agoNote 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 3y agoit's inspired art
- kruxigt 3y ago[dead]
- bronikowski 3y agoI've spent many nice evenings reading collies sent to me on disk by demoscene friends. Ah, it was so long ago…
- markx2 3y agoThe 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.
- neilv 3y agoIn 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. 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 3y agoFigure 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 3y agoVery 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 3y agoWow, 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.
- LocalH 3y agoOne of the few situations where CGA was arguably better than highres EGA or VGA
- JKCalhoun 3y agoThe 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: https://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/keyboard-art.jpg https://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/keyboard-art.jp...
- california-og 3y agoGood 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 https://twitter.com/readermeter/status/570459976759676928
- jlundberg 3y agoSo 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: https://16colo.rs/group/impure https://16colo.rs/group/impure
- berenddeperend 3y agoI 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 3y agoDoes 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 3y agoYes. 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 3y agoThank you! I wish I knew what the technique was called. I'd love to see some old screenshots.
- damieng 3y agoSurprised an article of this depth didn't mention that the Topaz font changed between Kickstart 1 and 2.
- hypercube33 3y agoI'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!
- goodboyjojo 3y agoi always liked looking at ascii art. also, there is this open-source program i use called moebius to make ascii and ansi art for fun