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today's art bits - this lil #amiga #ansi thing I made for Mortimer Twang the other day :) #textart #demoscene
Durdraw 0.29.0 has been released! New features include Durview, (an artpack viewer with 16colo.rs integration), custom character sets, better handling of large files, and more. Check it out at https://github.com/cmang/durdraw
ABC shut down FiveThirtyEight, once an amazing site for data-driven journalism and sports analysis.
I loved incorporating 538's data into old-school #retrocomputing and BBS projects, like my ANSI "Elex Forecast" BBS door. It used data from their 2016 and 2020 Election Forecast visualizations.
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2016/10/04/who-needs-svg-when-youve-got-ansi/
It's not easy to fit a pleasant vista into precisely 256 text characters, but I did it for "A Pleasant Vista", my entry into the jam-packed Text Graphics Competition at @lovebyteparty 2025!
What's your favourite 
size constrained #ansi #ansiart for the #Lovebyte 2025 online #demoparty , the comp rules were no more that 256 'pixels' which in ansi worked out at 16x16 blocks. I placed 17th out of 24, which wasn't great, but the competition was fierce :) its called 'Strawb'
FANSI had its own file format -- .FAN -- which I'm hoping to write a parser for.
I learned something new today from Eric March about the .FAN format.
The first ~6K is character data -- every character, along with its FG and BG color, for the 80 columns and 24 lines.
But the final 30K is bitmap data -- a full screen dump of the image as it is displayed in the editor.
Why?
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Recently I've been working on a fork of libansilove and ansilove-c that adds support for using fonts and color palettes derived from the Atari ST programs ANSIterm and FANSI.
FANSI was a really slick ANSI editor for the ST from Eric March.
It was a godsend to me as a teen when it was released in 1994. Finally I had a way to draw my own ANSI art in the full 16 colors.
If only it had come out a few years earlier!
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Let’s get ready for the first day of Lovebyte!
Join the live-stream on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/lovebytedemoparty) and get more info at https://lovebyte.party.
My second #FebROOary piece is one of the many nonbinary avatars I designed for the indie game "ZOZ" (https://stale-meme.itch.io/zoz) in a flying knee strike!
#Playing ZORK on End of The Line BBS:
https://endofthelinebbs.com/
You can play a lot of Infocom games there, & save your progression.
I'm taking a lot of notes. Playing in a dark place only lightened by some diode lights. The cat sleeps in a cardboard box nearby with all 4 irons in the air. What a scene! :0)
#zork #infocom #adventure #text #games #gaming #retrogaming #retrocomputing
#BBS #BBSing #ssh #EndOfTheLineBBS #bulletinboards #textmode #ANSI #ASCII #terminal #retrocomputing #oldschool
Eight Way Slots /Zombie Slots
> Last day/turn before score reset (1st day of the month)!
I'm trying Netrunner over Windows XP. Looks cool too. :0).
Try: https://endofthelinebbs.com/
#playing #games #gaming #slots #eightwayslots #zombieslots #retrogaming #retrocomputing
#BBS #BBSing #Netrunner #WindowsXP #EndOfTheLineBBS #bulletinboards #telnet #textmode #ANSI #terminal #pixelart #asciiart #retrocomputing #oldschool
In 2021, I did a #furry #ZZT #cyberpunk action/puzzle game, "Cyber Purge". In 2024, I overhauled it for itch.io! Become a nonbinary hacker and rescue an immersive VR game from a fascist! Old-school shooting/puzzle-solving await!