Re: PETSCII Art

Eric Scharff wrote:
> 
> Many years ago, I ran across a large collection of "PETSCII" art on
> the QuantumLink online service.
> 
> For those of you in alt.ascii-art, the Commodore 64 computer's standard
> character set included graphics symbols.  PETSCII art was composed from
> these symbols as well as the multiple colors supported by the machine.
> 
> Many BBSs had PETSCII splash screens.  There was a lot of really good
> stuff out there.  I also have vague memories of a program that was
> a combination editor and screen-based graphics viewer.

Yep, Commodore BBSs really ran with the Commodore C/G art idea, many of
them had C/G 'movie' players (with supporting C/G terminals) The
Commodore set also had cursor positioning controls in the PETASCII set
(move, cursor up, etc) so you could make crude animation. (IBM did too
if you had the ANSI library loaded, it was done through some longer
escape sequences)

There was a few great Commodore C/G artists, (Omega ...something...)

I dunno if there is any on textfiles.com (most of thier graphics stuff
is IBM ANSI C/G)

There's a couple disks full in the Commie Kazez BBS Archive CD...
There is a web gallery or two of q-link entry screens (search for qlink
or "quantum link", you probably will find them)

> Is there an archive of PETSCII art out there somewhere?  Would anyone
> be interested in a Web gallery?
> 
> Thanks in advance to the PETSCII artists out there,
> 
> -Eric
>  (Genuine email replies, replace e.d.s_2 with eds_2)

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   Larry Anderson - Sysop of Silicon Realms BBS  (209) 754-1363 
300-14.4k bps
       Set your 8-bit C= rigs to sail for http://www.portcommodore.com/
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