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@shawnhooper @Janeishly @TheLancashireman I had this here as my first device to the online world.
But even had the authorization of the German Federal Post Office (at that time also called the yellow plague)
300baud on #c64
the story behind my regular mailbox (bbs), which I visited regularly at the beginning:
https://tecs.de/box/geschichte.html
3 years ago, as I just had created Offpunk, I started to implement what would become ansicat : a way to render HTML (or any format) in your terminal
Besides a lot of technical learning, the biggest lesson was probably how bad people are at writing texts and abusing any format.
https://ploum.net/2022-03-24-ansi_html.html
See the results here:
ploum.netRendering the Web with Pictures in Your Terminal : more than you would like to know about HTML, ANSI and the philosophy of communication.
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Demoparty is also coming back to @layerone! Don’t forget to order your boards. We’ll also have #ansi categories again https://www.layerone.org/events/demo-party/
www.layerone.orgDemo Party | LayerOne 2025LayerOne Information Security Conference - May 25-26, 2024
today's art bits - this lil #amiga #ansi thing I made for Mortimer Twang the other day :) #textart #demoscene
IMHO this one of the best things I ever put on the internets 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEIoXCwvoSk
#2HOURS of #ANSI & #MUZAK via #TheHairNETTBBS
Anyone know any good ANSI artists, nfo artists I could reach out to? #ansi
Durdraw 0.29.0 has been released! New features include Durview, (an artpack viewer with 16colo.rs integration), custom character sets, better handling of large files, and more. Check it out at https://github.com/cmang/durdraw
ABC shut down FiveThirtyEight, once an amazing site for data-driven journalism and sports analysis.
I loved incorporating 538's data into old-school #retrocomputing and BBS projects, like my ANSI "Elex Forecast" BBS door. It used data from their 2016 and 2020 Election Forecast visualizations.
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2016/10/04/who-needs-svg-when-youve-got-ansi/
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Don't ask why it this idea popped into my mind:
Why there is no text based GUI for WSJT-X? For easy access with ssh, no need for horrible heavy remote desktop apps.
Skimming through the UDP api, there is so many possibilities. I even got an idea for picking the transmission frequency! Too bad I'm not big fan of FT8, but please somebody do it :) Looking at Textual examples this brings warm memories from 80-90's BBS times.
It's not easy to fit a pleasant vista into precisely 256 text characters, but I did it for "A Pleasant Vista", my entry into the jam-packed Text Graphics Competition at @lovebyteparty 2025!
What's your favourite 
I drew @BrodieOnLinux as ASCII art, because his Linux youtube channels are sweet.
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size constrained #ansi #ansiart for the #Lovebyte 2025 online #demoparty , the comp rules were no more that 256 'pixels' which in ansi worked out at 16x16 blocks. I placed 17th out of 24, which wasn't great, but the competition was fierce :) its called 'Strawb'
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FANSI had its own file format -- .FAN -- which I'm hoping to write a parser for.
I learned something new today from Eric March about the .FAN format.
The first ~6K is character data -- every character, along with its FG and BG color, for the 80 columns and 24 lines.
But the final 30K is bitmap data -- a full screen dump of the image as it is displayed in the editor.
Why?
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Recently I've been working on a fork of libansilove and ansilove-c that adds support for using fonts and color palettes derived from the Atari ST programs ANSIterm and FANSI.
FANSI was a really slick ANSI editor for the ST from Eric March.
It was a godsend to me as a teen when it was released in 1994. Finally I had a way to draw my own ANSI art in the full 16 colors.
If only it had come out a few years earlier!
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