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Bluesky post by 8bitboyzretro.bsky.social

Spoooooky time of year! Here’s one of our Halloween screensavers for Windows. This one is a 2019 Commodore 64 Halloween demo by Hokuto Force, done in PETSCII wi…

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k-rad! cle ansi pic by krl.au dis is where da real Shit is mutho r foqua greets: anub's - may you godiyness sh ne down On of me and all my niga at AU groop greetz to: Unton, Die, Skag, Gothic, Grind, Ac d, Ice - - - - - I - Lo n - - - - - - - 8 - - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - E : - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TEMPLE lighted ansi joke by krl.av, the "r" is for "RAD"

KRL-TMPL.ANS, 1996-03-24 from ftp.sunet.se/pub/pictures/ (FTP)

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-lacyon- FTachyon- Main Menu >LL File Point Utils List Users Time Bank BBs Listings Message Menu Voting Chat With SysUp System News Recent Callers Email Functions New User Voting User Transfer FeedBack Menu Doors Your Status Goodiye Leech List Set New Scan Infoforms Rumors Top Ten Listing Jump To Conference System Stats Password Change User Config File Sections ANSi Art Tachyon Credits Tachyon Add Tachyon Reg. Info - the Mystic Knighta

MAINM.ANS, 1992-12-25 from The WaREZ HouZE BBS: wbiz 0410 - 0419 (other)

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Bluesky post by j4nw.com

booby trap for @pixeldailies.bsky.social #textmode #pixelart #pixel_dailies

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Seven effects deep. ASCII runs columns of characters down the hooded figure, Scan Processor bends lines over the folds of the cloth, and a maze pattern grows th…

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- - - - this ansi for: doink started by: #06 (cheeze) next: #01 (widowmaker)

06-01.ANS, 1996-08-28 from dark domain - the artpacks.acid.org collection (CD-ROM)

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ANSI art

https://16colo.rs/pack/dark0797/4THDS-01.DRK #ansiart #textmode #bbs

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Screenshot of Codebreaker

Random game of the day: Codebreaker (Traditional (Board Games): J. Michael Ambrosio, 1994) Download/play: https://dosgames.com/game/codebreaker/ #dosgaming #ret…

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Mastodon post by VictoriaFerryRetroGeek@piaille.fr
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...Looks like 👀 2 of my #Amiga #AmigaOS3 Projects just collided... My #C64 VICE emulator port can now export C64 #BASIC source as UTF8 unicode, and my #EmojiGe…

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a - APATHS - apathy studi ios presents the august 1996 pack : our one year anniversaryt ph34r! trip speaks hi. welcome to apathy 12. hmm. 12. gee, that means 12 packs. we release monthly. hmm.. that boils down to 12 months.. HEY! WAIT A MINUTE'?0 Yes kiddies, it's our one year birthday, and we' re ready to do a little dance, make a little ansi, and get down tonight.. we have all sorts of dumb stuff happening, So read on, young ansi scene followerte gnu memburz it seems to happen most every month, and august was no exception... we gained a few awesome members to add to the already god-like list of apathy studs. first off is a young man named bill, who was a member of apathy way back when, but had to leave because of that pesky no-dualing rule. but hey, he's back, wOrd to that sO everyone give apox a big wet hug. next up is one of those wacky guys from the magical land of canada, home of large beaver eating, hockey playing, penguin humping mounties and guys named prizm : w00. coming over

0896-NFO.ANS, 1996-08-10 from dark domain - the artpacks.acid.org collection (CD-ROM)

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Metropolis 2084

🧩 Metropolis 2084 #cyberpunk #petscii By: That_Pinball_guy https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1KcKJgdkWtmKmj4R4iFq929FWiSmD1RA2m/2

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A white-outlined black human silhouette stands against a black and white spiral receeding into the distance, partly abstracted into binary 0s and 1s.
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Mistodon: this hypnotic Twilight Zone-ish greyscale #ANSIart screen, "Ghost Machine Swirl", was drawn by Darkman Almighty and included in the spooky MIST1024 ar…

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Art Fight Week 4

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you say, tomato, i say, toe-may-tow #ascii #pixelart #textmode

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RGT-TMP2.ANS, 1996-07-19 from ftp.sunet.se/pub/pictures/ (FTP)

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ANSI art

https://16colo.rs/pack/bat05/BC-WOE.ANS #ansiart #textmode #bbs

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Bluesky post by j4nw.com

wistful for @pixeldailies.bsky.social #textmode #pixelart #pixel_dailies

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Tumblr post by milktoastlaw

TextMode art of some cake slices, heavily inspired by Wayne Thiebaud! Made using "Text Mode" mode with the C64 font and PICO-8...

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rs The Maiden Brazil.. Several years ago (in the middle of 1996 to be more precise) I decided to create this group. At that time, I didn't have any idea of what a real ansi/art group was, I didn't even wonder what was the scene, I didn't even know that were some scene' thingy. When the group was - - it. created, So my I first barely release knew - some the ansi classical artist to sep/96's join "ndn-0996.zip" was a solo contibution for my new formed group. It was the first art group I've ever joined. I didn't include an info file in it because I didn't want people to know it was some one-man army" a group with one member. You know the rest of the story. Time passed, people joined Maiden Brazil was the greatest group ever formed on Brazil (and maybe on south america at least we had more releases than that great guys at Circe Argentina, one of my preferred groups). I've said it before, but I'11 repeat it again: at Maiden, at the scene, ansi, I've learned (both from drawing and from the p

RS-GIRL.ANS, 1998-11-01 from dark domain - the artpacks.acid.org collection (CD-ROM)

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neurosis of tide tide member profile updated - april 1996 neurosis position : presi ident/ansi artist) i'm a former acid/union ansi artist, known for my fonts. i became involved with tide because epis drafted me. he loved me So much, he made me the president "i'm not only an ansi artist. i'm also the president. epistasis (position : founder/ansi artist) well... itall started when i was a young man. my father used to beat me, and sexually molest me. if found my homage among the sheep. as the years progressed if felt a bond to my fluffy friends. Anyway... i'm an ansi artist and in my spare time i make a practice of sodomy. especially with sheep. "just a second, i got a beep" joe camel (position : founder/coder) hi. i'm a coder. "You know what we oughtta do?!?#10 oh. nevermind. that's shitty" flood (position : occasional ansi artist) i was the un-official vice president of relic, and i was also in union. ( phear the kowt ) when i'm not doodling, i like to take long walks on the beach, wat

NFO-0496.ANS, 1996-04-01 from The Equalizer BBS (other)

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my second ansi colly begins here.. sickline for chooka - - HI I - I - in - 'scl' for chnnka rp/poly 005 news - - - - - - insane creators enterprise iCE. - - - : - - happy birthday, synthetic - CiHitin - shockwave bbs aduert - - ave bbs rippa(poly?) polyester e-mag coming soont - Ln - in - - decaying bbs software select SO there you have it, about 90 lines of some nice, different colored, and some very distorted ansi. seeya in the next colly bozo. rippa_ Chotmail.com. and my colly ends here*

RP-ANSI.ANS, 1997-12-23 from dark domain - the artpacks.acid.org collection (CD-ROM)

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Art Fight Week 3

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Discord now supports full ANSI colors! I updated my colored text website to let you use them, as well as create rainbows and gradients and stuff. rebane2001.com…

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Speeding bike with no rider in front of a background of colored ASCII/ANSI stars and hearts
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#Glitchtober2026 Day 7 prompt: "Inertia" Made using a combination of databending and overcompression, juxtaposed on a background of randomly generated DOS CP-43…

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