Re: Gif to ASCII art converter **** HERE ****

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998 16:07:36 +0200, "Alberty Pascal" <pal*nos...@bsb.be>
wrote:

>
>Adam Dransfield a �crit dans le message
><35D...@design.wnp.ac.nz>...
>>Hi
>>Im trying to find a program that will convert .GIF .BMP or.TGA files
>>into ASCII art images.
>>Idealy one that will be able to batch convert a groupe of images at
>>once. It dosnt matter if it is PC or
>>Mac.
>>Thanks Adam Dransfield
>>
>
>http://users.skynet.be/pascalbe/ascii.html
>
>But it's not really user friendly :-)

Here's a list of conversion tool locations. All the GIF to ASCII
convertors seem quite crappy and don't give good pictures in my
opinion: 

To locate the most convenient copy of the following listed programs
try a simple search on www.altavista.com by typing in the name of
the actual program.

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From: "J. Melusky" <wha...@u.washington.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: Re: ASCII rendering
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 20:11:33 -0800
Message-ID: <Pine.A41.3.95b.970402201039.107420B-100000@homer35.
             u.washington.edu>

Conversion programs List:

(Available Feb 22 1997)
For: Dos, PC, MAC, VAX,    (45-58K)
Host: ftp.wwa.com
Address: 198.49.174.1
Path: pub/Scarecrow/Gifscii
URL: ftp://ftp.wwa.com/pub/Scarecrow/Gifscii

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or
(Available Feb 22 1996)
Search http://www.shareware.com's Macintosh directory for
"emaileffects.sit.hqx  (458K)
for an ascii program.

or
'sig95_2g.zip' 'sigpro2d.zip' (Win3.1) for signature alphabet programs.

or
'pixch020.zip' or 'emailasc.zip'for Bitmap to Ascii conversion programs.

or
(Available Feb 15 1997)
Search http://www.shareware.com's Amiga directory for
"AsciiArtP_F.lha"  (152K)
Ascii Painting Program V2.1

or

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(Available Feb 22 1997)
Two BMP2TXT.zip programs can be found at:
http://www.bsoftware.com/ssearch.htm
Operating System: DOS.

or
pixch020.zip - WIN3+: Bitmap to ASCII conv. (VBRUN200.DLL req)
Size of file: 17335
Operating System: Windows3+

or
achart12.zip - WIN3: ASCII chart, ANSI/IBM-PC/EBCDIC charsets
Size of file: 18367
Operating System: Windows3+

or
sigpro2d.zip - Generates .sig file ASCII-Art letters. Win3.1
Size of file: 199861
Operating System: Windows3+

or
xascii2.zip - Help File with Windows ASCII Char Sets
Size of file: 20846
Operating System: Windows3+

or
asciia11.zip - Convert GIFs into ASCII art for BBSs,etc.
Size of file: 96464
Operating System: DOS

or
asciiart.zip - Creates and Edits ASCII art, mouse interface
Size of file: 199762
Operating System: DOS

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(Available Feb 22 1997)
BMP to ASCII program:
Win 3.1
http://ring.aist.go.jp/openlab/fumio/www/charac/

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http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/~pal/ascii.html
GIFA.EXE  (3/25/97)

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(Worked Feb 22 1997)
http://www.webserve.com/gateways/figletgateway.pl  FIGLET DIY

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(Available Feb 15 1997)
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/incoming
/mac/graphics/graphicsutil/asciipaint1.0b4.sit.hqx
  82     5/15/95    BinHex4.0,StuffIt3.50
  (Nifty paint program draws ascii pictures useful for
  online chat, sig files, etc.; free!)

or
/mac/graphics/graphicsutil/pict2asciiart.sit.hqx
  88     8/6/95    BinHex4.0,StuffIt3.5
  (Converts picture data into ASCII art; requires some use of
  ResEdit 2.1 or later to create the art)

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http://home.sol.no/ekveland/download/Ascii/
has these Mac apps:
 ASCIIArtMaker.hqx      19-Feb-97 17:14    84k
 ASCIIPaint10.hqx       19-Feb-97 17:15   127k
 EmailEffects10.hqx     19-Feb-97 17:17   357k
 FIGlet211m001.hqx      19-Feb-97 17:17    39k
 Gifscii.hqx            19-Feb-97 17:17    25k

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http://www.inf.utfsm.cl/cgi-bin/figlet/service
FIGLET FONTS  (3/97)

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The Draw Fonts

ftp://archie.au/pc/coast/msdos/screen/ansiltr2.zip
ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/simtel/msdos/screen/ansiltr2.zip
ftp://ftp.web.ad.jp/pub/mirrors/Coast/msdos/screen/ansiltr2.zip
ftp://ftp.nic.surfnet.nl/mirror-archive/software/simtel-msdos/
       screen/ansiltr2.zip
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pc/mirror/Coast/msdos/screen/ansiltr2.zip
ftp://ftp.agt.net/pub/Simtel/msdos/screen/ansiltr2.zip
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/5997/tdrawfnt.zip
(Feb 6 1997)

Take care, Jon Melusky

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There is also a Windows program in a self-extracting archive named
B2T110E.EXE. It converts greyscale bitmap files into ascii files.

Bye,

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