They evolved at the beginning separately, "Block" on the PC and "Oldskool" on the Commodore Amiga. "Oldskool" and "Block" dominated the Scene when BBS's became popular. "Classic" ASCII art (using the term "Text art" for classic ASCII would be more appropriate) was not known to most "sceners". The Scene referred to the style wrongly as "Newskool", because the sceners, who were just "teenagers" for the most part, did not know better. As a matter of fact, it is as classic as "classic music". The second style which is using characters like "$#Xxo." quite a lot is actually very "classic" ASCII. Style 2 - "Newskool" or "Classic" Style ASCII Art You can mark and then copy'n paste them into an editor, if you don't believe me. Text on the Amiga was a dark font on light background). Look at the sample Ascii (Screenshot) for the Ice Cream BBS by Paso (I inverted the colors for Web Design purposes. You are right, but it did not happen this way, because the style was coined "Amiga" Style when it made its debute on the PC which was dominated by "Block" ASCII at that time (see style 3.). You could argue that the style should be called "C-64 Style" or at least "Commodore Style". The "Amiga Style" did actually derive from Text Art created on the Commodore 64 to decorate the File Listings on "Release" Floppy discs. "Line" ASCII's on the Amiga did more look like sketches than text Art. If you enter an "underscore" in one line and a slash beneath it, than it looked like if the 2 characters were glued together. There was hardly a gap between the lines and the characters "lined up" much better. The standard text font on the Amiga did not have the same line spacing and font style as on the PC. You will be surprised to hear that there was a very unique reason why this style was so dominant on the Amiga Computers. The first style of ASCII is using primarily slashes and lines (/\-|_) and came originally from the Commodore Amiga. It is not a complete list, but includes the most popular and most frequent used. Here are a number of graphical characters used by PC ASCII artists. You can check out my ASCII art primer, if you want to learn about it in greater detail.Īs already mentioned, those ASCIIs are unique to the MS DOS IBM PC and can not be found on other systems, including Linux or Unix systems who also run on a PC. Those "other ASCII's" are referred to as "Block-ASCII's" so I will leave it at that. The ASCII's using the special graphical characters on a PC (8 bit) are actually not really "ASCII's" in the true meaning of the word, because they are specific to the IBM PC and MS DOS (Code Pages 437 for North America and Code Pages 850 for Europe for example), but nobody really cared for that fine distinction. ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ~ 8 bit ASCII 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ^ _ The space character is represented by the white block at the beginning. Here is the US Charsset, starting with ASCII character 32 (space/blank) and ending with the ASCII character126 (tilde: ~). Another term would be: "true" ASCII's, because ASCII, standing for "American Standard Code for Information Interchange" is always 7 bit, using only ASCII code 32 (space) to 126 (tilde ~) ). "Original" is actually another good term for 7 bit ASCII's. Also important to mention is PC ANSI, the colored "cousin" of ASCII ANSI is not a style, but a format. The " Oldskool" or "Amiga" style (7-bit), the " Newskool" or "Classic" style (7-Bit) and last but not least the " Block" or "High-Ascii" style (8-bit). There are 3 distinct Styles, two 7-bit and one 8-bit (high or extended ascii set): BBS'es and also ASCII and ANSI Text art continues to exist until today, but are considered a novelty by most people and are hard to find. The more important the internet became, the more did BBS'es loose importance. The prime of ASCII and ANSI Text art was during the time when BBS'es (Bulletin Board Systems) were the primary medium for computer enthusiasts and "sceners" to exchange files and communicate. This Article is about the ASCII Art Styles used by the Artists in the Underground Art Scene on the PC and Amiga between 1990 and today. Videos, Tutorials and ASCII Art by Various Artists.Style 3 - "Block" or "High ASCII" Style ASCII Art.Style 2 - "Newskool" or "Classic" Style ASCII Art.Style 1 - "Oldskool" or "Amiga" Style ASCII Art.
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