 A screenshot of TheDraw editing an ANSI art picture of a shuttle; the purple text blinks ANSI art is a computer artform that was widely used at one time on BBSes. It is similar to ASCII art, but constructed from a larger set of 256 letters, numbers, and symbols — all codes found in IBM code page 437, often referred to as extended ASCII and used in MS-DOS environments. ANSI art also contains special ANSI escape codes that color text with the 16 foreground and 8 background colours offered by ANSI.SYS, an MS-DOS device driver loosely based upon the ANSI X3.64 standard for text terminals. Some ANSI artists take advantage of the cursor control sequences within ANSI X3.64 in order to create animations, commonly referred to as ANSImations. ANSI art and text files which incorporate ANSI codes carry the de facto .ANS file extension. A screenshot of TheDraw, editing the ANSI art shuttle2. ...
A screenshot of TheDraw, editing the ANSI art shuttle2. ...
Ward Christensen and the computer that ran the first public Bulletin Board System, CBBS A Bulletin Board System or BBS is a computer system running software that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line and, using a terminal program, perform functions such as downloading software and...
ASCII art, an artistic medium relying primarily on computers for presentation, consists of pictures pieced together from characters (preferably from the 95 printable characters defined by ASCII). ...
IBM PC or MS-DOS code page 437, often abbreviated CP437 and also known as DOS-US or OEM-US, is the original character set of the IBM PC, circa 1981. ...
The term extended ASCII (or high ASCII) describes eight-bit or larger character encodings that include the standard seven-bit ASCII characters as well as others. ...
Microsofts disk operating system, MS-DOS, was Microsofts implementation of DOS, which was the first popular operating system for the IBM PC, and until recently, was widely used on the PC compatible platform. ...
ANSI escape codes are used to control text formatting and other output options on text terminals that are based on the ANSI X3. ...
ANSI.SYS is a device driver in MS-DOS (and related operating systems) that provides extra console functions through ANSI escape codes. ...
Windows XP loading drivers during a Safe Mode bootup A device driver, or a software driver is a specific type of computer software, typically developed to allow interaction with hardware devices. ...
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a private, non-profit standards organization that produces industrial standards in the United States. ...
A typical text terminal produces input and displays output and errors A text terminal or often just terminal (sometimes text console) is a serial computer interface for text entry and display. ...
A filename extension is a suffix to the name of a computer file applied to show its format. ...
ANSI art is considerably more flexible than ASCII art, because the particular character set it uses contains symbols intended for drawing, such as a wide variety of box-drawing characters and block characters that dither the foreground and background color. It also adds accented characters and math symbols that often find creative use among ANSI artists. This article or section should be merged with Dither An illustration of dithering. ...
The popularity of ANSI art encouraged the creation of a powerful shareware package called TheDraw coded by Ian E. Davis in 1986. Not only did it considerably simplify the process of making an ANSI art screen from scratch, but it also included a variety of "fonts", large letters constructed from box and block characters, and transition animations such as dissolve and clock. Mysteriously, no new versions of TheDraw emerged after version 4.63 in 1993, but in later years a number of other ANSI editors appeared, some of which are still maintained today. 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
el 18 de mayo nacio claudia // 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
The decline of both BBSes and DOS users has made it difficult for many users to even view ANSI animations. As a consequence, this form of art is no longer practiced to the degree it once was.
The popular game creation system (GCS) ZZT used ANSI graphics exclusively. A later GCS based on the same concept, Megazeux, allowed users to modify the extended ASCII character set as well. ZZT is an ANSI-based computer game, created in 1991 by Tim Sweeney, of Epic Games, who later designed Unreal. ...
MegaZeux, or in short MZX, is a game creation system (GCS) based on Tim Sweeney/Epic Megagames classic shareware game ZZT. MegaZeux was created in late 1994 by Gregory Janson, who formed his own company, Software Visions (now defunct). ...
Trade Wars 2002, a multiplayer BBS 4X game that remains popular 20 years after its release in 1986, used ANSI graphics to depict ships, planets, and important locations, and included cutscenes and even a cinema with ANSI animations. Many of these ANSI graphics were created by Drew Markham, who went on to form Xatrix/Gray Matter Interactive and develop Redneck Rampage and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, among other titles. TW2002 title screen. ...
4X refers to a genre of strategy game, usually a computer game, with four primary goals: eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate. ...
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Redneck Rampage is a 1997 first-person shooter game designed by Xatrix Entertainment and published by Interplay. ...
Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a first person shooter computer game published by Activision and released on November 20, 2001. ...
Many artists who continue to engage in the ANSI art format frequent IRC channels #ansi and #ans on the Eris Free (EFnet) chat network. IRC Abjects • AbleNET • AfterNET • Aitvaras • AusIRC • AustIRC • AustNet • Blitzed • BRASnet • DALnet • Delinked • DeltaAnime • EFnet • EsperNet • freenode • Gamma Force • GamesNET • GameSurge • IRCHighway • IRCnet • LinkNet • NetGamers • Open and Free Technology Community • QuakeNet Rizon • SlashNET • UKChatterbox • UniBG • Undernet • ZiRC EFnet or Eris Free network is a major IRC network, with over 70,000...
ANSI art editors - ACiDDraw
- PabloDraw, ANSI/ASCII editor allowing multiple users to edit via TCP/IP network connections
- Tetradraw A fully featured ANSI art editor for *nix operating systems.
- TheDraw 4.63 A page which distributes TheSoft's TheDraw
- TundraDraw A cross-platform ANSI and ASCII editor for Microsoft Windows and X environments. Source code available.
ACiD Productions (ACiD) is an underground digital art group. ...
PabloDraw is a text editor for Windows, designed for creating ANSI and ASCII art, similar to that of its DOS-based predecessors; ACiDDraw (1994) and TheDraw (1986). ...
The Internet protocol suite is the set of communications protocols that implement the protocol stack on which the Internet runs. ...
ANSI art viewers - ACiD View for Windows An image viewer for Microsoft Windows which supports several formats including ANSI art and ANSI animation; includes source code; compatible with Windows 9X.
- PabloView for Windows A powerful viewer similar to that of ACiD View; requires .NET Framework.
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References - Scott, Jason. "BBS: The Documentary" (DVD). Boston, MA: Bovine Ignition Systems, 2005.
- Danet, Brenda. "Cyberpl@y: Communicating Online". Oxford, UK: Berg, 2001. ISBN 1-85973-424-3.
- "Dark Domain: the artpacks.acid.org collection" (DVD-ROM). San Jose, CA, USA: ACiD Productions, LLC, 2004. ISBN 0-9746537-0-5.
- Zetter, Kim. How Humble BBS Begat Wired World. Wired News. June 8, 2005.
Kim Zetter in the 2004 documentary Invisible Ballots Kim Zetter is an American freelance journalist in Oakland, California. ...
Wired News, online at Wired. ...
ANSI art groups and artists The ten avatars of Lord Vishnu, copyright BBT In Hindu philosophy, an avatar, avatara or avataram (Sanskrit: , IAST: ), most commonly refers to the incarnation (bodily manifestation) of a higher being (deva), or the Supreme Being (God) onto planet Earth. ...
The phrase computer art scene or artscene for short, refers to a community of individuals and groups, that are both interested and active in the creation of computer-based artwork. ...
Aces of ANSI Art, or <AAA>, were the first organized body of artists formed for the sole purpose of creating ANSI art. ...
Chemical Reaction, which is spelled cHEMICAL rEACTION (cRO) is an artcene group that was founded in by the sceners rADIATORS (aka Dennis Hansen) and bLOOD in the year 1997 in Germany, Europe. ...
ACiD Productions (ACiD) is an underground digital art group. ...
iCE Advertisements is a digital art group formed in 1991. ...
Dytec Ascii Logo by member artist Roy. ...
Creators of Intense Art font in XBIN format. ...
Black Maiden PC-Demo: Interceptor by Black Maiden ANSI by Voice/Black Maiden Black Maiden is a group of people — mainly from Europe — participating in various art disciplines like demos, music, textmode art, graphics design, graffiti and alike. ...
See also A Text Mode Demo Compo (TMDC) is a very strange and interesting competition to create the most eye pleasing text mode demo. ...
ASCII art, an artistic medium relying primarily on computers for presentation, consists of pictures pieced together from characters (preferably from the 95 printable characters defined by ASCII). ...
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