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I think I'll try to make a little game as the specimen of my new font.For now, I think I'll name it "10humps" but I'm not sure. Each glyph design is based on a …
Posted by adelfaure
My first new piece of art for 2026 was the text file art for this demo, featuring my own version of the deer rendered entirely in plain ASCII. It was a lot of f…
Posted by TheGreenHerring
Also new in #ThingUmbrella: The new https://thi.ng/text-format-image package provides conversion/formatting for bitmap output for CLI/Terminal apps, currently o…
Posted by toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
For #TextModeTuesday, some fonts from my old demoscene days, recreated in 2022 for an example project of my opensource libraries:Figlet style text generator usi…
Posted by toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
Do you remember BBSes or ANSI art? Interested in comics or obscure bits of history?Please check out my profile of ANSI artist Eerie, a talented teenager in Queb…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
ANSI artist Eerie is the subject of my latest in-depth #retrocomputing profile:https://breakintochat.com/blog/2025/12/31/ansi-art-and-webcomics-part-3-eerie-and…
Posted by Kirkman@mastodon.social
"Calvin and Hobbes" was a major influence and subject for ANSI artists of the 1990s. https://16colo.rs/tags/content/calvinThe characters were so funny, so well-…
Posted by Kirkman@mastodon.social
PART 3 HAS DROPPED!In 1994, a teenager in Quebec wanted to make his mark in the underground scene. One of many things he tried: creating a profane, stoned, gray…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
A first draft for the 512 NoBz types. I made a little generator for this ( no ai or any crap, just coding ;-) ). They are themed according to their 8 main behav…
Posted by adelfaure
🤔 ❓Do you ever wonder about the burning existential questions …What was “ANSI art”? What was a “bulletin board”? Were there ANSI comics? Heck, how do you even …
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
Textmode drawing of one of my characters for Pixonomicon Secret Santa 2025 #mastoart #fediart #textmode #petscii #c64 #commodore64
Posted by copheemoth@oomfie.city
One book claimed "Inspector Dangerfuck" by ANSI artist Eerie was "the first known comic on the internet." But who was Eerie? What was "Inspector Dangerfuck?" Wa…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
🤷♂️ "Very little is readily available"🤷♀️ "I couldn't find much"🤷♂️ "Information is scarce and unreliable at best"For nearly 20 years, writers have been a…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
Was "Inspector Dangerfuck," an ANSI art series by Eerie, really the "first known comic on the internet" as claimed in a 2006 book? Probably not. But there's som…
Posted by kirkman@digipres.club
The 23rd day of the 2025 #ANSIArt Advent calendar from @mistfunk marked my final entry in the calendar, a nest of snow rabbits about to become one rabbit larger…
Posted by TheGreenHerring
Day 20 of the 2025 #ANSIArt Advent calendar from @mistfunk.bsky.social starred the couple from my "Circus of Dreams" comic from Deadline 2024 (@deadline-berlin.…
Posted by TheGreenHerring