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~brewed

Small update: I've been reading a lot about ANSI art. I wasn't around at the time of BBS but it's impressive what's doable with ASCII and some control sequences to put some colors. I've struggled a lot to get something to work on my system, mostly because of how encodings have changed in the past 30 years.

I've seen that most of the art made back then used an encoding/character set called CP 437 which extends ASCII by adding another bit. I've found a software that makes it simple to draw with that encoding:

PabloDraw

I discovered some insanely great art that people are doing with ANSI sequences. Here are some links:

https://artpacks.org/

http://blocktronics.org/

I started to use PabloDraw to create "Membership Coupons" for the arcade. To view them on my system (which uses UTF-8), I run the file through iconv and alter some escape sequences and voila.

Hold and behold, the first membership coupon goes to you, stargazer!

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~stargazer wrote:

Thanks!