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Could’ve been a demo party, but it’s the North American Videotex, 1985.
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Mexican Folk Art Animal by Cheryl Fall, via.
FatFonts Player by Santiago Ortiz lets you change animated patterns in realtime. The patterns are created with FatFonts that make higher numbers more bold. An unusual approach in the ASCII-world, also made by for example Jurriaan Schrofer.
Post updated in 2024.
Stroker by Bob Carr, 1983. A C64 wanking game in PETSCII. Carr is one of the earliest PETSCII-artists, since he used the PET in the 1970’s.
(via @despens)
Examples of AOL Macro Fonts, made here. These are ASCII fonts created specifically for the 10p Arial font of AOL in the 1990s. While most ASCII uses a monospaced font, this doesn’t (and neither does the Japanese Shift_JIS art). Specific tools for AOL ASCII such as Pepsi were developed.
In the late 90’s, little hacking programs known as “proggies” became popular in the underground warez scene of AOL (examples: AOHell and Fate-X). As these programs became more popular, many begain to feature “Macro Shops”, which were ASCII Art development areas. The user could develop their own ASCII Art and then scroll the text in an AOL chat room.
To generate your own logos and get more info go to INTERNET-LINK. More examples of AOL-style ASCII art here.
ANSI for Southern Comfort BBS by MiRAGE – The Family Values ANSI Group.
Check the unicode version at Roy/SAC’s site.
