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What is Ascii?, you might ask. It's actually the most simple of computer arts available,
only containing the basic characters of the Ascii set you can type with your keyboard.
It ranges from simple smiley's :) to advanced big pictures. Big pictures are often done
with shading from lighter to darker characters i.e. :?%$# And you can also use
the different shapes of the characters in "line draw",,-´"`-./"¨"~-..,´\,^., or
or "shape draw",d#b. "Y##bo._, or combine all three standards..
Note that Dos (OEM standard) and Windows (ANSI standard) Ascii are slightly different,
and might require different progs and converters.
Of course, Notepad works out fine, Still: There's some good progs that could be useful:

/°\5(¡¡ Pix
ArtpackCheck out my artpack!
/°\5(¡¡ Progs
TheDrawerAnsi, but could come in handy. Good in Dos
TextPadGot pretty good block editing mode
AsciiArtPretty hard to use and mostly worse than TheDraw
Gifscii 1 2Could turn most gif's into Ascii's
/°\5(¡¡ Links
Joan Stark's Home PageSpunk - legendary artist
Ascii ArtWhat it says!
InData ASCII Art LinksSome links
Scarecrow's Ftp archiveAscii Fan



And then, what is Ansi? It's pretty much like 16-color Ascii, with 8 foreground
and 8 background colors. This might sound pretty lame, but you could achieve
pretty good shading with keys like this:. Ansi started out as a method
to draw pics on BBS:es, which you called with a phone number on a modem.
In the beginning, ansis could only be as big as an average computer screen.
But now, you can have screen/double screen width and unlimited height, which gives you
more possibilities. Of course, bigger ansis doesn't look as good on a BBS.
Larger height ansis flows down on the screen, Bigger width, I don't know.
There is also extended ansis like Adf, which comes closer to basic Ega-Vga.
And Rip, which looks pretty much like those old Ega pics, hard to use though.
If you wanna know more, check out these links:
I've got trouble with an Ansi thing, click here if you wanna help!

Ansi Pix
ArtpackCheck out my artpack!
Ansi Progs
AcidDrawBigger screens
TheDrawerClassic!
TheBrushImport BMP and PCX pix
ArtworxCreators of Adf
ShmansiFreeware, with Ice Colors and Adf
IceViewIce's Viewer
AcidViewAcid's Viewer
Ansi Links
The Original ANSI Art GalleryPretty cool, much recent art
SuperunknownThe yellow pages to underground computer art, old though.
Learn 2 DrawLearn 2 Draw - zip file
Art Groups
AcidAcid Art Group
IceIce Art Group
BladeBlade Art Group
CiaCia Art Group
Zone OneMy group:)