Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 5 Jan 1999.
ASCII art creation
alt.ascii-art
· 3 messages · 5 Jan 1999 - 10 Jan 1999
Hi all. Firstly, my apologies if a posting of this sort has already been posted. A friend of mine told me about a piece of software that converts bitmaps to ASCII art. I have tried doing a few net searches but have only found pieces of software for the Amiga. Does anyone know where I can get a piece of software like this? Thanks in advance. Paul...
.----- On Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:59:49 -0000, Paul Eagles posted:
|Hi all.
|
|Firstly, my apologies if a posting of this sort has already been posted.
|
|A friend of mine told me about a piece of software that converts bitmaps to
|ASCII art.
|
|I have tried doing a few net searches but have only found pieces of software
|for the Amiga.
|
|Does anyone know where I can get a piece of software like this?
|
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I take it on the Amiga you might be wanting something like ILBM to ASCII? I
think there is an Amiga version of GifScii, which converts GIF files to
ASCII Art... try these URLs as a starting point...
gopher://twinbrook.cis.uab.edu/1A/atools.70
ftp://ftp.wwa.com/pub/Scarecrow/Gifscii/.
Hope this helps...
-Martin
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.----- On Sat, 09 Jan 1999 15:20:10 GMT, Martin Atkins posted:
|.----- On Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:59:49 -0000, Paul Eagles posted:
||Hi all.
||
||Firstly, my apologies if a posting of this sort has already been posted.
||
||A friend of mine told me about a piece of software that converts bitmaps to
||ASCII art.
||
||I have tried doing a few net searches but have only found pieces of software
||for the Amiga.
||
||Does anyone know where I can get a piece of software like this?
||
|'--------------------------------
|
|I take it on the Amiga you might be wanting something like ILBM to ASCII? I
|think there is an Amiga version of GifScii, which converts GIF files to
|ASCII Art... try these URLs as a starting point...
|
| gopher://twinbrook.cis.uab.edu/1A/atools.70
| ftp://ftp.wwa.com/pub/Scarecrow/Gifscii/.
|
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I just re-read your message... you *don't* want Amiga software right? :o)
Those sites will still work, so give them a look anyway.
Sorry - Didn't read the message properly!
-Martin
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