Re: Gif/Image To ASCII

On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Richard S. or Teresa L. St. John wrote:
> I have heard that there is a program out on the net that will take a GIF
> or JPG image and convert it to an ASCII image. How good is this, and
> what is it called, not to mention where can I get one of these programs.
> RS

Hi RS, Here is the list I have so far. I need to recheck them but you can
try them out also. 

Conversion programs List:

(Available as of Oct 31 1996)
Host: ftp.wwa.com
Address: 198.49.174.1
Path: pub/Scarecrow/Gifscii
URL: ftp://ftp.wwa.com/pub/Scarecrow/Gifscii
AlphaGifscii.exe  45Kb

or
(Available Oct 31 1996)
Search http://www.shareware.com's Macintosh directory for 'markxy01.zip'
or 'markxy00.zip'
for a graphics to ascii program.
or
'sig95_2g.zip' 'sigpro2d.zip' (Win3.1) for signature alphabet programs.
or
'pixch020.zip' or 'emailasc.zip'for Bitmap to Ascii conversion programs.
or
(Available Nov 29 1996)
Two BMP2TXT.zip programs can be found at:
http://www.bsoftware.com/ssearch.htm
They are for DOS.
or
(Available Nov 27 1996)
BMP to ASCII program:
http://ring.aist.go.jp/openlab/fumio/www/charac/index.html .
Windows only. :-)
The entry point is:
http://ring.aist.go.jp/openlab/fumio/www/index.html
or
http://www.webserve.com/gateways/figletgateway.pl  FIGLET program.
or
(Available Dec 6 1996)
http://www.ualberta.ca/~crnelson/display.html
or
(Available Nov 21 1996)
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/incoming  OS/2 FIGLET program.

Take care, Jon Melusky
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