HOW you do it?

The Dutch Dude:
How about writing your own program.
It even can be done in Basic.
It's as simple as that!!
You can do it yourself. GET SMART, MAKE ASCII ART !!
Run This Program: 

10  CLS
20  READ A$
30  IF A$ = "Holland 1996" THEN PRINT A$: END
40  PRINT A$;
50  FOR T = LEN(A$) TO 1 STEP -1
60 PRINT MID$(A$, T, 1);
70 NEXT
80 PRINT
90 GOTO 20
500 DATA"           ##    "
530 DATA"            ##   "
540 DATA"             ##|-"                 
550 DATA"            | ## "
560 DATA"           |___##"
570 DATA"          |~~~~##"
580 DATA"           ===##="
590 DATA"          |..##.."
600 DATA"         |..##..."
610 DATA"        |..##...."
620 DATA"       |........_"
630 DATA"      |........|_"
640 DATA"     |_________|_"
670 DATA"Holland 1996"

It makes:                      

           ##        ##
            ##      ##
             ##|--|##
            | ##  ## |
           |___####___|
          |~~~~####~~~~|
           ===##==##===
          |..##....##..|
         |..##......##..|
        |..##........##..|
       |........__........|
      |........|__|........|
     |_________|__|_________|
           Holland 1996

mcg...@fiber.net (RYAN MCGUIRE) writes:
>hey artists, I was just wondering how you make ascii art. do you just
>use a text editor?

	$ cat > ascii-art.txt

Sven

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Easy as pie!

RYAN MCGUIRE (mcg...@fiber.net) wrote:
: hey artists, I was just wondering how you make ascii art. do you just
: use a text editor?  if you do that seems pretty hard to me, at least
: for the more complex ones i've seen. if you want to respond here it
: is- mcg...@fiber.net

I myself use a gif=>ascii converter to give me a base, then I edit that 
picture in DOS edit (in typeover mode). I usualy have a picutre of 
whatever I'm editing beside me for refrence. I understand others use 
clear plastic, draw on that, and put it on their staticy screens, then 
type under it. Others use a piece of graph paper, draw on it, then fill 
in the pattern on the paper and copy it to the screen (this is what I 
suspect the Dutch Dude does.) If you want you pictures to look good it is 
strongly sugested that you use blending character, for instance, since 
the double quotes (") only take up the upperhalf, they can be used as a 
half step, and the lower-case (m) takes up the lower half making it perfect 
for the inverse of the ("). Play around, look at others art, and give it 
a try.

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