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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 23 Aug 1998.
Re: Gif to ASCII art converter

Re: Gif to ASCII art converter

.----- On Sun, 23 Aug 1998 04:54:42 GMT, Colin Douthwaite posted:
|
|Is it just as crappy as ASCGIF and GIFSCII which are very user unfriendly,
|yield garbage pictures of unuseful size, will not process GIF 89a files?
'---------------------------
Well first, it`s a BMP2ASC converter, so no it won`t do GIF89a. <g>
It`s user friendly though, it`s a windows program with a nice simple
interface. However, look at the output:

           .- Sample output from ASCIIART ----.           
           |         ;$XXHXXXXXXX+.           |           
           |      :XXXHHHHHXHHHHXXX$.         |           
           |    /XXXXHHHXXHHHHHHHXXXH/        |           
           |   /XXXXXHHH$HHHHHHHHHHHHH%       |           
           |  .XXXXXXHHX$HHHHHHHHHHHHHH;      |           
           |  ;XXXXXHX$XX$$$XHHHHHHHHXHX.     |           
           | .$XXXH%/;;;::::;/$HHHHHHHXX;     |           
           | =XXXHX//;;:::::;;/+HXHHHHHH$     |           
           | /HXXH$//;;;;::::;;/$XHHHHHXX-    |           
           | %HXXH%/;;;;;;;;+$$%$XHHHHHHX/    |           
           | XXXXHX$X$%+//+++;$%HXHHHHHHX$.   |           
           |.XXXXHX+/////://;///+$XHHH@HHHHH/.|           
           |,X$XXHH%;;;;/;///;;;+$XHHH@HHHH@@@|           
           |-X$XXH@H+/++/;/++;//%XHHHH@HHHH@@@|           
           |=$$XXHHH@@%%$$%++++%$XXHHHHHXH@@@@|           
           |=$$XXX$$@@@H%++++%%%$$XHXH@HH@@@@@|           
           |=$XHXX%$@@@@@%+++%$%$$XXXHH$H@@@@@|           
           |-+%XHHH@@@@@@@X+/+%$$$$$$%%/=$@@@@|           
           | //XXXH@@@@@@@@@@@@X%%++///=--/H@@|           
           |   %XXHH@@@@@@@@@@@@X+;/;;=-,,,-$@|           
           |  =XHXHH@@@@@@@@@@@@X/,. ..-,..,,/|           
           |  $H@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@XH;....,......|           
           '------------------- for Windows! -'           

Not particularly good.

BTW, guess who that is... It`s someone famous!

.---------------------------
|
|Yeah, I know, if only I will buy and install Windoze 95 or 98, and buy
|a new powerful computer to run them then there are wonderful GIF -> ASCII
|convertors that will make me Top Ascii Artist of this century!
|
'---------------------------
Not neccesarily... It`s the artist that`s ultimately skilled, not the
software he/she uses. Remember the undisputed queen of ascii art uses one of
the crappest text editors in the world... it won`t even let you
right-cursorkey along blank lines unless you fill them with spaces!

I`m gonna stick with TextPad. <g>

|\/| _..__|_o._   /\_|_| o._  _   mart.atkins@--
|  |(_||  |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_>            --bigfoot.com

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From: zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins)
Subject: Re: Gif to ASCII art converter
Date: 1998/08/23
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