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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 5 May 1997.
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Anymore mIRC color ascii files?

Anymore mIRC color ascii files?

alt.ascii-art · 4 messages · 5 May 1997 - 9 May 1997

Hi all...

Does anyone have anymore of those color mIRC ascii files to share?  Thanks to 
the creator of the alligator one...After much playing around, I finally found 
the way to make it work in mIRC (not difficult but I'm just not very familiar 
with mIRC yet) and it was really cute!  I'd love to try others.  I may try to 
work on some myself but I'm not very talented in the art department.  ;-)  

Thanks, 
Paula



*11th commandment - Covet not thy neighbor's Pentium.*
(Remove *nospam* from my addy to email me.  Thanks!)

llizard <cq5...@freent.toronto.on.ca> ASCII art 8 May 1997 00:00 · permalink · report

In article <5klo6s$b88...@atl.bellsouth.net>
pkaye*nospam*@bellsouth.net (Paula) wrote:
> 
> Hi all...
> 
> Does anyone have anymore of those color mIRC ascii files to share?  Thanks to
> the creator of the alligator one...After much playing around, I finally found
> the way to make it work in mIRC (not difficult but I'm just not very familiar
> with mIRC yet) and it was really cute!  I'd love to try others.  I may try to
> work on some myself but I'm not very talented in the art department.  ;-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Paula (Remove *nospam* from my addy to email me.  Thanks!)

Paula, it's pretty easy to colour any ascii drawing. Just make sure that
you leave the initials of the original artist in the ones you colour.
You can use the codes you got from Shanaka's alligator one: 

                    .-._   _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
         .-''-.__.-'00  '-' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '-.
         '.___ '    .   .--_'-' '-' '-' _'-' '._
          V: V 'vv-'   '_   '.       .'  _..' '.'.
            '=.____.=_.--'   :_.__.__:_   '.   : :
                    (((____.-'        '-.  /   : :
          snd                         (((-'\ .' /
                                    _____..'  .'
                                   '-._____.-'

[MAKE SURE YOU ADD THE "snd" TO THE ONE YOU HAVE! The person who posted
those colour coded drawings left out the initials]

But we can't post the control codes for the colours here in the
newsgroup. It really screws up some readers. So you're on your own.


NOTE: If you hit the reply button, add an "e" to the "freent";
its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers.
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     _/   |      ,^%---          Always give credit
    |_____|   __ >  \           where credit is due.
      ---  == -- >
    [_____]    __>,^               llizard aka ejm
     |   |    //| |           cq5...@freenet.toronto.on.ca

llizard <cq5...@freent.toronto.on.ca> ASCII art 8 May 1997 00:00 · permalink · report

pkaye*nospam*@bellsouth.net (Paula) wrote:
>
> Does anyone have anymore of those color mIRC ascii files to share?  Thanks to
> the creator of the alligator one...After much playing around, I finally found
> the way to make it work in mIRC (not difficult but I'm just not very familiar
> with mIRC yet) and it was really cute!  I'd love to try others.  I may try to
> work on some myself but I'm not very talented in the art department.  ;-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Paula (Remove *nospam* from my addy to email me.  Thanks!)

I have coloured things for mIRC and got a long chart from someone
there. Here is a modified shortened version that might help you
use your program. I have changed the control characters to "[]"
so as not to annoy people unduly. The "[]" has to be changed back
to the character that looks like a box. (I don't know what or where
to find it other than copying it from one of the coloured asciis you
have on file.

------------------------------------
***Colorizing a text file (ascii art)

Open the text file: (using llizard as example)

These colours are GREAT!                     |
                                             |
      ha                           ,^        |
         ha  -----%^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^          |
           ha ha /    "    "                 |
ejm97           /                            |
                                             |


Make sure your drawing has enough spaces after each line to make
it into a rectangle. The lines I put in at the end of each line
are only there to show how far the spaces go. You don't need to
put them in.

To make the background black, put "[]1,1" at the beginning of
each line. If you wanted to make it navy blue, you would put
"[]2,2". To make the first "ha" red, put []4 before it. Then to
make the tail green,  put a []3 just before the characters for
the tail. If you have put a verticle line at the end of your
rectangle to help you see where your drawing should end, put a
[]1 before it to make it black (the same colour as your background)

[]1,1[]14These colours []14are
[]8G[]7R[]4E[]6A[]12T[]0!                     []1|
[]1,1                                             |
[]1,1      []4ha                           []3,^        []1|
[]1,1         []4ha  []3-----[]11%[]3^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^          []1|
[]1,1           []4ha ha []3/    "    "                 []1|
[]1,1[]14ejm97           []3/                            []1|
[]1,1                                             |

Adding color code *seems* to distort the picture, especially when
you change colors on one line, as done here on line three for the
"ha", nose, eyes and body.  But when you run it in mIRC, it will
still look like the original llizard --but coloured.


Save the file.  Use the /play command to send it to the chat
screen. (If file is saved as llizard.txt, in C:\mirc, the command
would be: /play C:\mirc\llizard.txt

Hope this helps you. Have fun and don't make your drawings too
wide or too many lines or you will get horrible distortion. If
you colour somebody else's drawings, make sure you colour and
leave their initials in.

Muz <oak...@wave.co.nz> 9 May 1997 00:00 · permalink · report
It is fairly easy to colour asscii files. Just connect to mirc and form a 
channel and where you type do a Ctrl "K" and highlight it and copy it.
Then go to the text file you want to colour and paste it on the extreme left 
of  every line with the number of the colour you want to the immediate right 
of it and hey presto...if you have ctrl "K" 13 all the way down the left of 
your text it will be Shocking Pink .

                                     Cheers from Muz


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