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networks have a channel mode that forbids you from using colors. Some IRC
clients (including mIRC) also support ANSI color, but you may have to turn on
that option first.
6.4 Demoscene ASCII art
Demoscene is an underground culture based mostly on demos, which are multimedia
presentations a lot like animations, but calculated in real time. They evolved
from cracktros (tiny applications included with cracked software) which had
mostly scrollers and some background music. Nowadays demos often look like
music videos or professional 3D animations. Demoscene is also much more than
that, including national and international gatherings, demoparties.
Like the infofiles of pirated software, demoscene productions (demos and
intros) often have an ASCII logo in their infofile. Generally they're either so
called "oldskool" ASCII or "block ASCII". Oldskool ASCII consists of logos made
mostly out of slashes, pipes, hyphens and underscores. The logos appear very
similar in style and hard to read for many people. They may look very easy to
draw, but are more difficult than they seem.
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_\ ___ __ ___ | / ___ aBHO ____ /_
/ _(___ _/ /__ _/__/__ | _ /_/__/__ __/ _ (_
__ ___/ \ (_/ / \_/ _) (_| /// _) (_/ l/ _/_ ___
\ \_ _/ / _/ ` _/ / ` _/ ___\ / /
\ /________\ ______\ ______\ _/_________\ / /_____\ /
<--\/----------\/-------\/-------\/-----------\/---------\/-->
Clever by aBHO
Some oldskool ASCIIs are made on the Amiga and contain extended characters,
they're known as Amiga ASCII (compared to PC ASCII) "Block ASCII" is not
technically ASCII at all, as it utilizes extended characters, "raster blocks",
as does ANSI art. There's another type of demoscene ASCII, known as "newskool
ASCII". It's practically a solid style, often used in graffiti-like logos and
usually uses extended DOS characters.
Besides info files, demoscene ASCII can also appear elsewhere. Some demoparties
have ASCII and ANSI competitions and there are ASCII logo compos held on some
IRC channels regularly. ASCII pictures are also released in "collies"
(collections) and artpacks. A colly is usually just a text file with lot of
logos by the same artist. An artpack is usually released by an artgroup and can
have ASCII, ANSI, Ripscript and hires pictures.
6.5 ASCII art culture and etiquette
The people who belong in the demoscene related art scene often regard their
scene as the "real" ASCII scene, though it's much newer and much less popular
than the mainstream ASCII scene. The alt.ascii-art Usenet newsgroup has existed
for a long time and is still rather active for posting ASCII pictures and
requesting them. There are other newsgroups, but they receive hardly any
traffic.
Usually people sign their ASCII pictures with their initials or with a short
nickname. You're usually free to use ASCII art for non-commercial purposes as
long as you keep those initials - it's the artist's signature. In
alt.ascii-art, people often diddle each other's pictures. That means altering
the picture slightly so that it looks better - or like something totally
different. Usually that means including initials from every person who has
participated in the picture.
There's a certain individual in the newsgroup that makes "ASCII art farts" of
other people's images - he has done that every day for several years. Don't be
too offended if Tran takes a picture of yours and adds a lame joke to it.
File: academy/tutorials/tut_oglesbee.txt
http://www.ascii-art.de/info/tut_jro.txt
So, You Want To Make Text Art?
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(~)_) ( (_) )_ | ( (_) ) (_) | | (_/ \_) ( (_| | ( ) | |_
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| |/'__`(`\/') | (___)| _ ( "__) | / /
| ( ___/> <| |_ | | | | | | |_ |_|
(_)\____|_/\_)\__) (_) (_|_) `\__) (_)...
...That's NO problem, believe me. If you can't paint like
Remington, Picasso, or Chester Scott, or sketch a square circle with a
pencil, or even smear "wash me" on a dirty windshield with your
finger, then text art is for you! Truth is, just about anybody can
make a text picutre; so don't say that you CAN'T. You can. It's easy!
It really is. It doesn't take a lot of practice, and it doesn't take a
lot of "artistic ability". I can have you making your own, unique
text-art, in no time at all.