Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 7 Jan 2001.
I need your help!
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· 4 messages · 7 Jan 2001 - 9 Jan 2001
OK Here Goes... I'm creating an ad-supported shareware program to generate line art and cool text effects for chat rooms. Would anyone be interested in submitting some small designs for use in this program? Examples of what I'm looking for are as follows: Beginning and endings: *~*:._Like This!_.:*~* Alternate alphabets e.g.(]-[ac|<er) And cool repetitive text characters (L*I*K*E*T*H*I*S) The two conditions for use are: 1.It must be standard ascii character set and display correctly on fixed width fonts on 1 line 2.You have to commit it to public domain. The money I will make off of the small ads and registrations will be small compared to the time I already have and will continue to put into developing it. If I use your art, I will include your name in a scrolling credits screen along with your sample with link to homepage, email etc. (Feel free to enclose your ascii signature. Multi-line ok for this!) I will also send you a complete copy of the finished product ad-free and any future versions. The reason I'm writing this here is because I've seen so much talent in here and would love to have some of it in this project. I hope I haven't insulted anyone. If anyone is interested please submit to ele...@flash.net Include the sample, a cool name for the effect, a statement of commitment to public domain and text you'd like included in the credits screen. I will respond by email to all submissions. Thanks for your help! Jim ele...@flash.net Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
On Sun, 07 Jan 2001 01:00:51 GMT, ele...@flash.net wrote: >OK Here Goes... >I'm creating an ad-supported shareware program to generate line art and >cool text effects for chat rooms. >Would anyone be interested in submitting some small designs for use in >this program? Examples of what I'm looking for are as follows: > >Beginning and endings: > *~*:._Like This!_.:*~* > >Alternate alphabets e.g.(]-[ac|<er) > >And cool repetitive text characters (L*I*K*E*T*H*I*S) > >The two conditions for use are: > >1.It must be standard ascii character set and display correctly on >fixed width fonts on 1 line >2.You have to commit it to public domain. > >The money I will make off of the small ads and registrations will be >small compared to the time I already have and will continue to put into >developing it. > >If I use your art, I will include your name in a scrolling credits >screen along with your sample with link to homepage, email etc. >(Feel free to enclose your ascii signature. Multi-line ok for this!) > >I will also send you a complete copy of the finished product ad-free >and any future versions. > >The reason I'm writing this here is because I've seen so much talent in >here and would love to have some of it in this project. I hope I >haven't insulted anyone. > >If anyone is interested please submit to ele...@flash.net >Include the sample, a cool name for the effect, >a statement of commitment to public domain and text you'd like included >in the credits screen. I will respond by email to all submissions. > >Thanks for your help! >Jim >ele...@flash.net so, tell me, why would you need a shareware to do something that people in chatrooms do all the time already, and how would this work with say mIRC verses Pirch? let alone other IRC software. mIRC scripting is very different from pirch to start with, and pirch doesnt even use a fixed width font (ariel I think) where as most mIRC users use fixedsys does this program you offer have all the script libraries for the competeing chat programs? or are you just writing something that will be of limited use? I take it that you intend this to be all "single line 'art'" and not pictures, sort of like emoticons on drugs... do you intend the users of "your" software will be coloring, or not coloring "your" ]-[ac|<er fonts and *R*E*P*E*T*I*T*I*V*E* *T*E*X*T* strings (all this is old junk, why are you doing it now?) Maybe if you could give a clearer idea of your intentions and parameters for your shareware (or is it a mrc, maybe a pirchpic?) you would (a) get appropriate feedback and (b) find someone who might possibly think this is a worthwhile venture. .-. .-. (_ '. .-',%%%%%,'-. .' _) (__.'\ ~'. %^.^% .'~ /'.__) / @(O)\ '._)'(_.' /(O)@ \ | | (_) {_\'.'/_} (_) | | _\__\__= _ /(_).(_)\ _ =__/ /_ ( / \ ) ( ) // ) : ( \\ ( ) ( / \ ) ||| |||(.O')_____________________________('O.)||| ||| c||___|c| (_)PopUps Scripts(_) |c|___||c ||(_(_|||_| | #ASCII_Art | |_|||_)_)|| ((|_|_|())) | irc.bluedwarf.net | ((()|_|_|)) |)) * |_| |_| * ((| |||_)\( )_____________________________( )/(_||| (_(____)\_/ MJP \_/(____)_)
Hey Mike: The product that I'm developing isn't so much for IRC use as it is for the various instant messaging clients available on the web (e.g. Yahoo,MSN etc.) I agree that "all this is old junk" and hoped I'd be inspired from responses I received on this NG to come up with better stuff. My intention wasn't to create a program for use by people that already have talent in this area, but to make a quick easy way for IM users to dress up their text messages to keep things more interesting. I'm sure you're too elite for all that nonsense. Thank you again to everyone that has responded by email. Jim ele...@flash.net In article <3a5...@news.concentric.net>, mik...@bluedwarf.spam.net (MJP) wrote: > On Sun, 07 Jan 2001 01:00:51 GMT, ele...@flash.net wrote: > > >OK Here Goes... > >I'm creating an ad-supported shareware program to generate line art and > >cool text effects for chat rooms. > >Would anyone be interested in submitting some small designs for use in > >this program? Examples of what I'm looking for are as follows: > > > >Beginning and endings: > > *~*:._Like This!_.:*~* > > > >Alternate alphabets e.g.(]-[ac|<er) > > > >And cool repetitive text characters (L*I*K*E*T*H*I*S) > > > >The two conditions for use are: > > > >1.It must be standard ascii character set and display correctly on > >fixed width fonts on 1 line > >2.You have to commit it to public domain. > > > >The money I will make off of the small ads and registrations will be > >small compared to the time I already have and will continue to put into > >developing it. > > > >If I use your art, I will include your name in a scrolling credits > >screen along with your sample with link to homepage, email etc. > >(Feel free to enclose your ascii signature. Multi-line ok for this!) > > > >I will also send you a complete copy of the finished product ad-free > >and any future versions. > > > >The reason I'm writing this here is because I've seen so much talent in > >here and would love to have some of it in this project. I hope I > >haven't insulted anyone. > > > >If anyone is interested please submit to ele...@flash.net > >Include the sample, a cool name for the effect, > >a statement of commitment to public domain and text you'd like included > >in the credits screen. I will respond by email to all submissions. > > > >Thanks for your help! > >Jim > >ele...@flash.net > > so, tell me, why would you need a shareware to do something that people > in chatrooms do all the time already, and how would this work with > say mIRC verses Pirch? let alone other IRC software. > mIRC scripting is very different from pirch to start with, and > pirch doesnt even use a fixed width font (ariel I think) where as most mIRC users use fixedsys > does this program you offer have all the script libraries for the competeing > chat programs? or are you just writing something that will be of limited use? > I take it that you intend this to be all "single line 'art'" and not pictures, > sort of like emoticons on drugs... do you intend the users of "your" software > will be coloring, or not coloring "your" ]-[ac|<er fonts and > *R*E*P*E*T*I*T*I*V*E* *T*E*X*T* strings (all this is old junk, why are you doing it now?) > > Maybe if you could give a clearer idea of your intentions and parameters for your > shareware (or is it a mrc, maybe a pirchpic?) you would (a) get appropriate feedback > and (b) find someone who might possibly think this is a worthwhile venture. > > .-. .-. > (_ '. .-',%%%%%,'-. .' _) > (__.'\ ~'. %^.^% .'~ /'.__) > / @(O)\ '._)'(_.' /(O)@ \ > | | (_) {_\'.'/_} (_) | | > _\__\__= _ /(_).(_)\ _ =__/ /_ > ( / \ ) ( ) // ) : ( \\ ( ) ( / \ ) > ||| |||(.O')_____________________________('O.)||| ||| > c||___|c| (_)PopUps Scripts(_) |c|___||c > ||(_(_|||_| | #ASCII_Art | |_|||_)_)|| > ((|_|_|())) | irc.bluedwarf.net | ((()|_|_|)) > |)) * |_| |_| * ((| > |||_)\( )_____________________________( )/(_||| > (_(____)\_/ MJP \_/(____)_) > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
On Mon, 08 Jan 2001 21:23:26 GMT, ele...@flash.net Spake thus: >Hey Mike: >The product that I'm developing isn't so much for IRC use as it is for >the various instant messaging clients available on the web (e.g. >Yahoo,MSN etc.) I agree that "all this is old junk" and hoped I'd be >inspired from responses I received on this NG to come up with better >stuff. My intention wasn't to create a program for use by people that >already have talent in this area, but to make a quick easy way for IM >users to dress up their text messages to keep things more interesting. >I'm sure you're too elite for all that nonsense. >Thank you again to everyone that has responded by email. > >Jim >ele...@flash.net Ok, I didnt mean to sound elite at all, was asking,,,, @};-- OK --;{@ *%;-> so smile C=);o{) Cowboy .-. .-. (_ '. .-',%%%%%,'-. .' _) (__.'\ ~'. %^.^% .'~ /'.__) / @(O)\ '._)'(_.' /(O)@ \ | | (_) {_\'.'/_} (_) | | _\__\__= _ /(_).(_)\ _ =__/ /_ ( / \ ) ( ) // ) : ( \\ ( ) ( / \ ) ||| |||(.O')_____________________________('O.)||| ||| c||___|c| (_)PopUps Scripts(_) |c|___||c ||(_(_|||_| | #ASCII_Art | |_|||_)_)|| ((|_|_|())) | irc.bluedwarf.net | ((()|_|_|)) |)) * |_| |_| * ((| |||_)\( )_____________________________( )/(_||| (_(____)\_/ MJP \_/(____)_)
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