Re: Gif to ASCII art converter

On Sun, 23 Aug 1998 20:01:53 GMT, zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins)
wrote:

>.----- 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. 

A Windoze program?  Bleah!  I just lost interest.

>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!

It could only be BILL GATES, the Windoze Maestro hisself!  8-)


>.---------------------------
>|
>|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!

That's all a load of crap Martin!  *8-(

She may be a great artist but that does not make her great at anything
else!  Hah!

She actually has to use that crappy and clunky old Windoze editor
"Notepad". YUK!

Bye,

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