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Mistodon: many veterans of the underground PC artscene feel that #ANSIart is necessarily the main attraction in any artpack. Our spooky new MIST1024 collection …
Posted by mistfunk
Premiering in @mistfunk's "MIST1024.ZIP" (https://16colo.rs/pack/mist1024/) artpack: this smallscale #ANSIArt speed-drawing of a #Werewolf howling at the moon! …
Posted by TheGreenHerring
Mistodon: here is a sampling of some of the various #textmode and #semigraphics art formats and styles in use in the (frankly terrifying) new MIST1024 artpack c…
Posted by mistfunk
Mistodon: a cosmic web of tubes? I think I remember this from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure! This #ANSIart screen by AdeptApril is an abstract impression of …
Posted by mistfunk
Mistodon: just in time for #Halloween, here comes the spooky new MIST1024 artpack collection full of seasonal computer art on dark themes. Browse it on 16colo.r…
Posted by mistfunk
Mistodon: UNESCO proclaimed today the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. I don't know about you, but between its name and this #ANSIart illustration by AdeptAp…
Posted by mistfunk
Mistodon: those noises you heard last night while you were trying to sleep? That's right -- they were due to celebrants observing "Worldwide Howl at the Moon Ni…
Posted by mistfunk
A pyramid piece by Steve Turnbull, called "XNET_LST.IG", is a trippy tour-de-force — the most amazing IGS animation ever created, in my opinion. Full of details…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
"Hold it!" This is the first time I do a #textmode styled #pixelart piece. Using the #pico8 colors as always. It was tough but fun to draw with.
Posted by lokistriker@mastodon.gamedev.place
Messing around with a #textmode renderer in #picotron. currently working on an editor to more easily create graphics for other carts.
Posted by Werxzy@mastodon.social
Mistodon: AdeptApril advises us through this #ANSIart screen, an International Artwork, that today is International Artist Day. It tracks!
Posted by mistfunk
IT'S HERE! My in-depth history of "Instant Graphics and Sound" — the little-known text protocol for bringing vector art and music to BBSes — has reached the sad…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
Mistodon: In 1992, Tim Burton's second #Batman movie came out, titled #BatmanReturns. XTComics used its name as the premise for a gag in his #ASCIIart / emoji c…
Posted by mistfunk
Mistodon: this #ANSIart portrait of the Sequoya Public #Library in Madison, Wisconsin was drawn by AdeptApril in celebration of the International Day of Librari…
Posted by mistfunk
When I came home today two parcels with #Commodore #RetroComputing stuff waited for me:1. Eleven MSD2IEC cartridges (made from the late Seanser of #C64 Club Ber…
Posted by stefanhoeltgen@mastodon.social
Mistodon: this jolly little #Halloween village #ASCIIart scene is the handiwork of @ldb (coloured by Cthulu!) and was used in an infofile in the spooky MIST1021…
Posted by mistfunk
Mistodon: AdeptApril helpfully pointed out in this #ANSIart screen that today, the 23rd day of the 10th month, is "Mole Day", observed between 6:02 am and 6:02 …
Posted by mistfunk
I just added ~140 ANSI "telecomic" strips to the 16colors archive.https://16colo.rs/artist/don+lokke+jrThese #ANSIart #textmode political cartoons were created …
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
Mistodon: this skullish monochrome #PETSCII exploration of the cycle of death and rebirth is unsurprisingly the handiwork of @littlebitspace and was included in…
Posted by mistfunk
MISTODON: WE'RE NOT YELLING, WE'RE NOT BOOMERS, IT'S JUST CAPSLOCK DAY. (AND, MAKING ADEPTAPRIL'S #ANSIART ILLUSTRATION A LITTLE MORE INTERESTING, IT'S ALSO NAT…
Posted by mistfunk
Mistigram: there is no great way of presenting “scrollers”, very tall and narrow #ANSIart compositions, as static images over social media. Nevertheless, LDA wo…
Posted by mistfunk
Mistodon: Windows users not wanted here -- as AdeptApril's #ANSIart screen indicates, this autumnal day hosts the occasion of #Apple Day. One should keep the do…
Posted by mistfunk
Mistodon: this #ANSIart accompanied the culmination of #EdgarAllanPoe's #MasqueOfTheRedDeath in Lobo Spitouf's complete illustrated #ANSIPOE collection for BBSe…
Posted by mistfunk