ANSII [not ASCII]

Do you guys remember old ANSII graphics in computer games??

I know that you can view ANSII [.ans] art in Internet Explorer.

How on earth do you make ANSII graphics, does anybody know? Is it litterally
raw-coding an image?

TankS
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>Do you guys remember old ANSII graphics in computer games??
>
>I know that you can view ANSII [.ans] art in Internet Explorer.
>
>How on earth do you make ANSII graphics, does anybody know? Is it litterally
>raw-coding an image?

Get a program like TheDraw or ACiDDraw.
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> Do you guys remember old ANSII graphics in computer games??

Nibbles ! :)

> I know that you can view ANSII [.ans] art in Internet Explorer.

AFAIK you can't - But you can view HTML coloured ascii-art.
If I'm wrong please tell me how you view it.

> How on earth do you make ANSII graphics, does anybody know? Is it litterally
> raw-coding an image?

It's just the text with ANSI colour escape codes.
Use a ANSI drawing program to colour the graphics - for drawing the artwork I
suggest JavE , but it can't colour the images because Markus (the programmer)
feels it makes it too easy to draw nice pictures and the art part therefore is
overlooked.
I disagree.
It's also tweaked for the ascii charset only .. and not the extended DOS charset
that many ansi-games used

"Bateau" <Its...@Not-A-Real-Address.com> wrote in message
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|
| >How on earth do you make ANSII graphics, does anybody know? Is it
litterally
| >raw-coding an image?
|
| Get a program like TheDraw or ACiDDraw.

I got the program, from www.thuglife.org, but it doesn't seem to work,
neither does the viewer, it comes up with the error message, this is not a
32bit application.

Should it work with win98? or does it have to be run through dos?
if so how!?


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"CeeJay" <use...@ceejay.cjb.REMOVEnet> wrote in message
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|
| > I know that you can view ANSII [.ans] art in Internet Explorer.
|
| AFAIK you can't - But you can view HTML coloured ascii-art.
| If I'm wrong please tell me how you view it.
|


Your right, I thought I could at the following url
http://magneticm.ice.org/ansi/ice/

it seems the links open the original .ans through a cgi bin, which decodes
the the script and shows them as .png files.

good though :)



| > How on earth do you make ANSII graphics, does anybody know? Is it
litterally
| > raw-coding an image?
|
| It's just the text with ANSI colour escape codes.
| Use a ANSI drawing program to colour the graphics - for drawing the
artwork I
| suggest JavE , but it can't colour the images because Markus (the
programmer)
| feels it makes it too easy to draw nice pictures and the art part
therefore is
| overlooked.
| I disagree.


the artist should have the option, I can see where he's comming from it
takes the rawness away from the image and could leave a confused mess, but I
still say let the artist decide and the public can take it from there - good
or bad.

��B��

"Kevan" <cut...@shreve.net> wrote in message
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| On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 02:12:16 +0000 (UTC), drsquare <now...@nowhere.co.uk>
|
| Well, neither work on my Windows 2000 computer. I guess they just didn't
build
| in DOS 3.0 compatibility into it.
|
|

nor win 98

��B��

At Wed, 2 Jan 2002 13:39:05 +0000 (UTC) "��BaDStylE�� �"
<spa...@spam.com> wrote 15 Lines about "ANSII [not ASCII]" in
"alt.ascii-art"

>Do you guys remember old ANSII graphics in computer games??
>
>I know that you can view ANSII [.ans] art in Internet Explorer.
>
>How on earth do you make ANSII graphics, does anybody know? Is it litterally
>raw-coding an image?
>
>TankS
>��B��
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> /___________\
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>

Check out http://archives.thebbs.org/ra107c.htm it have some files for
ansiediting.

Some great stuff in here, enough to keep me happy for ages!

Thanks
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btw are these -+ [bulletpoints] showing up for people, or are they just '?'
some people in other newsgroups are haaving trouble reading them, ya see.


"M�rten Mellberg" <rem...@hotmail.com> wrote in
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| At Wed, 2 Jan 2002 13:39:05 +0000 (UTC) "��BaDStylE�� �"
| <spa...@spam.com> wrote 15 Lines about "ANSII [not ASCII]" in
| "alt.ascii-art"
|
| >Do you guys remember old ANSII graphics in computer games??
| >
| >I know that you can view ANSII [.ans] art in Internet Explorer.
| >
| >How on earth do you make ANSII graphics, does anybody know? Is it
litterally
| >raw-coding an image?
| >
| >TankS
| >��B��
| >     __,__
| >  __/_____\=======H
| > /___________\
| >(�������������)
| >
|
| Check out http://archives.thebbs.org/ra107c.htm it have some files for
| ansiediting.
|

> Your right, I thought I could at the following url
> http://magneticm.ice.org/ansi/ice/
>
> it seems the links open the original .ans through a cgi bin, which decodes
> the the script and shows them as .png files.
>
> good though :)

You can also view them in DOS (or at a prompt) when you have the ANSI.SYS
installed (one line in your config.sys). Then simply use 'type
<filename.ans>' and you got it. I once wrote a program which generated
running text that way. You could pipe it to a file and using type it started
runnig again ;)

Joey

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 18:32:58 +0000 (UTC), "��BaDStylE�� �" <spa...@spam.com> wrote:

>Some great stuff in here, enough to keep me happy for ages!
>
>Thanks
>��B�� <--------+
>               |
>btw are these -+ [bulletpoints] showing up for people, or are they just '?'
>some people in other newsgroups are haaving trouble reading them, ya see.
>
 depending on your news reader (and font choice maybe) those "alt characters"
(nonascii) will not show up, or will show up as something else.

WAIT... there is a program on the Windows2000 CD that is ment for running
OLD Programs on Windows2000 they let you set up an environment for your
programs. So you can have Win98, WinNT SP3/4/5, Win95

?:)

"drsquare" <now...@nowhere.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 03 Jan 2002 00:26:21 -0600, in alt.ascii-art,
>  (Kevan <cut...@shreve.net>) wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 02:12:16 +0000 (UTC), drsquare <now...@nowhere.co.uk>
from
> >BT Openworld wrote:
> >
> >>>>____     On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 13:39:05 +0000 (UTC)
> >>>>\__/___  ��BaDStylE�� � ran through the
> >>>> LI-\o-' streets of alt.ascii-art
> >>>>     |   waving an axe and screaming:
> >>>>    / \
> >>>>>Do you guys remember old ANSII graphics in computer games??
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I know that you can view ANSII [.ans] art in Internet Explorer.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>How on earth do you make ANSII graphics, does anybody know? Is it
litterally
> >>>>>raw-coding an image?
> >>>>
> >>>>Get a program like TheDraw or ACiDDraw.
> >>>
> >>>Do those programs even run on a modern-type computer?
> >>
> >>Why wouldn't they?
> >
> >Well, neither work on my Windows 2000 computer. I guess they just didn't
build
> >in DOS 3.0 compatibility into it.
>
> Well, that MS for you. Making all your programs not work any more so you
> have to buy new ones.
>
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thanks, best using full stops then.

..B..

"MJP" <mik...@bluedwarf.spam.net> wrote in message
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| On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 18:32:58 +0000 (UTC), "��BaDStylE�� �" <spa...@spam.com>
wrote:
|
| >Some great stuff in here, enough to keep me happy for ages!
| >
| >Thanks
| >��B�� <--------+
| >               |
| >btw are these -+ [bulletpoints] showing up for people, or are they just
'?'
| >some people in other newsgroups are haaving trouble reading them, ya see.
| >
|  depending on your news reader (and font choice maybe) those "alt
characters"
| (nonascii) will not show up, or will show up as something else.

Don't suppose you can do this with MSXP?

..B..

"Poster" <Pos...@NoSpam.net> wrote in message
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| WAIT... there is a program on the Windows2000 CD that is ment for running
| OLD Programs on Windows2000 they let you set up an environment for your
| programs. So you can have Win98, WinNT SP3/4/5, Win95
|
| ?:)
|
| "drsquare" <now...@nowhere.co.uk> wrote in message
| news:ubt...@4ax.com...
| > On Thu, 03 Jan 2002 00:26:21 -0600, in alt.ascii-art,
| >  (Kevan <cut...@shreve.net>) wrote:
| >
| > >On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 02:12:16 +0000 (UTC), drsquare
<now...@nowhere.co.uk>
| from
| > >BT Openworld wrote:
| > >
| > >>>>____     On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 13:39:05 +0000 (UTC)
| > >>>>\__/___  ��BaDStylE�� � ran through the
| > >>>> LI-\o-' streets of alt.ascii-art
| > >>>>     |   waving an axe and screaming:
| > >>>>    / \
| > >>>>>Do you guys remember old ANSII graphics in computer games??
| > >>>>>
| > >>>>>I know that you can view ANSII [.ans] art in Internet Explorer.
| > >>>>>
| > >>>>>How on earth do you make ANSII graphics, does anybody know? Is it
| litterally
| > >>>>>raw-coding an image?
| > >>>>
| > >>>>Get a program like TheDraw or ACiDDraw.
| > >>>
| > >>>Do those programs even run on a modern-type computer?
| > >>
| > >>Why wouldn't they?
| > >
| > >Well, neither work on my Windows 2000 computer. I guess they just
didn't
| build
| > >in DOS 3.0 compatibility into it.
| >
| > Well, that MS for you. Making all your programs not work any more so you
| > have to buy new ones.
| >
| > --
| >               ..        ..                  .'
| >              '         '     .'            '
| >     ':''.':':'':':''.':''.  :   :'':':''.':''.
| >      : .'.' '..: : .' : .' : ''.'..: :..' : .'
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| >    :         :  :                :
| >  .'        .' .'               .'
|
|

"��BaDStylE�� �" <spa...@spam.com> wrote:

>��B�� <--------+
>               |
>btw are these -+ [bulletpoints] showing up for people, or are they just '?'
>some people in other newsgroups are haaving trouble reading them, ya see.

As your posting does not declare a charset, it depends on the default
charset people choose for their newsreader (ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-15
display it the right way).

Same applies to your From: line.

You should enable MIME Encoding and 7-bit-MIME-headers in your
newsreader to ensure everybody displays your posting in the same
charset - as long as his newsreader understands it.

Michael

____     On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 20:07:13 +0000 (UTC)
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>"Bateau" <Its...@Not-A-Real-Address.com> wrote in message
>news:3TszPBmwbF38pEb1mCh4UW=E2d...@4ax.com...
>|
>| >How on earth do you make ANSII graphics, does anybody know? Is it
>litterally
>| >raw-coding an image?
>|
>| Get a program like TheDraw or ACiDDraw.
>
>I got the program, from www.thuglife.org, but it doesn't seem to work,
>neither does the viewer, it comes up with the error message, this is not a
>32bit application.
>
>Should it work with win98? or does it have to be run through dos?
>if so how!?

It works for me with Win95.
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____     On Wed, 02 Jan 2002 16:56:04 -0600
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>On Thu, 03 Jan 2002 00:57:16 +0800, Bateau <Its...@Not-A-Real-Address.com> from
>wrote:
>
>>____     On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 13:39:05 +0000 (UTC)
>>\__/___  ��BaDStylE�� � ran through the
>> LI-\o-' streets of alt.ascii-art
>>     |   waving an axe and screaming:
>>    / \
>>>Do you guys remember old ANSII graphics in computer games??
>>>
>>>I know that you can view ANSII [.ans] art in Internet Explorer.
>>>
>>>How on earth do you make ANSII graphics, does anybody know? Is it litterally
>>>raw-coding an image?
>>
>>Get a program like TheDraw or ACiDDraw.
>
>Do those programs even run on a modern-type computer?

I don't have a modern type computer :D
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____     On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 14:42:46 +0000 (UTC)
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>On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 09:06:31 +0400, in alt.ascii-art,
> ("Poster" <Pos...@NoSpam.net>) wrote:
>
>>WAIT... there is a program on the Windows2000 CD that is ment for running
>>OLD Programs on Windows2000 they let you set up an environment for your
>>programs. So you can have Win98, WinNT SP3/4/5, Win95
>
>So you have to use a special program just to get your old programs working?
>What a load of shite.

Yeah it is but check out alt.games.abandonware's FAQ if you want to
know how.
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DRSQUARE... Either that SHITE or NO SHIT!! You choose ... ;)


"drsquare" <now...@nowhere.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 09:06:31 +0400, in alt.ascii-art,
>  ("Poster" <Pos...@NoSpam.net>) wrote:
>
> >WAIT... there is a program on the Windows2000 CD that is ment for running
> >OLD Programs on Windows2000 they let you set up an environment for your
> >programs. So you can have Win98, WinNT SP3/4/5, Win95
>
> So you have to use a special program just to get your old programs
working?
> What a load of shite.
>
>
> >"drsquare" <now...@nowhere.co.uk> wrote in message
> >news:ubt...@4ax.com...
> >> On Thu, 03 Jan 2002 00:26:21 -0600, in alt.ascii-art,
> >>  (Kevan <cut...@shreve.net>) wrote:
> >>
> >> >On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 02:12:16 +0000 (UTC), drsquare
<now...@nowhere.co.uk>
> >from
> >> >BT Openworld wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>>>____     On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 13:39:05 +0000 (UTC)
> >> >>>>\__/___  ��BaDStylE�� � ran through the
> >> >>>> LI-\o-' streets of alt.ascii-art
> >> >>>>     |   waving an axe and screaming:
> >> >>>>    / \
> >> >>>>>Do you guys remember old ANSII graphics in computer games??
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>>I know that you can view ANSII [.ans] art in Internet Explorer.
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>>How on earth do you make ANSII graphics, does anybody know? Is it
> >litterally
> >> >>>>>raw-coding an image?
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>Get a program like TheDraw or ACiDDraw.
> >> >>>
> >> >>>Do those programs even run on a modern-type computer?
> >> >>
> >> >>Why wouldn't they?
> >> >
> >> >Well, neither work on my Windows 2000 computer. I guess they just
didn't
> >build
> >> >in DOS 3.0 compatibility into it.
> >>
> >> Well, that MS for you. Making all your programs not work any more so
you
> >> have to buy new ones.
> >>
> >> --
> >>               ..        ..                  .'
> >>              '         '     .'            '
> >>     ':''.':':'':':''.':''.  :   :'':':''.':''.
> >>      : .'.' '..: : .' : .' : ''.'..: :..' : .'
> >>     :         :  :          '..'  :
> >>    :         :  :                :
> >>  .'        .' .'               .'
> >
>
>
> --
>               ..        ..                  .'
>              '         '     .'            '
>     ':''.':':'':':''.':''.  :   :'':':''.':''.
>      : .'.' '..: : .' : .' : ''.'..: :..' : .'
>     :         :  :          '..'  :
>    :         :  :                :
>  .'        .' .'               .'

if it runs in dos, could it be that I need to put some kind of ansii
extension code, if so what? and where?

..B..

"Bateau" <Its...@Not-A-Real-Address.com> wrote in message
news:Kn8...@4ax.com...
| ____     On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 20:07:13 +0000 (UTC)
| \__/___  ��BaDStylE�� � ran through the
|  LI-\o-' streets of alt.ascii-art
|      |   waving an axe and screaming:
|     / \
| >"Bateau" <Its...@Not-A-Real-Address.com> wrote in message
| >news:3TszPBmwbF38pEb1mCh4UW=E2d...@4ax.com...
| >|
| >| >How on earth do you make ANSII graphics, does anybody know? Is it
| >litterally
| >| >raw-coding an image?
| >|
| >| Get a program like TheDraw or ACiDDraw.
| >
| >I got the program, from www.thuglife.org, but it doesn't seem to work,
| >neither does the viewer, it comes up with the error message, this is not
a
| >32bit application.
| >
| >Should it work with win98? or does it have to be run through dos?
| >if so how!?
|
| It works for me with Win95.
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drsquare <now...@nowhere.co.uk> wrote:

>So you have to use a special program just to get your old programs working?
>What a load of shite.

If you want to run Win3.0 or Win2.x apps in Win95, you have to use a
special program  ("mkcompat"), too (e.g. if they depend on fonts like
"TmsRmn" or "Helv").

Michael
Followup to poster

drsquare wrote:

> >>So you have to use a special program just to get your old programs working?
> >>What a load of shite.
> >If you want to run Win3.0 or Win2.x apps in Win95, you have to use a
> >special program  ("mkcompat"), too (e.g. if they depend on fonts like
> >"TmsRmn" or "Helv").
> What a load of rubbish.
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