#ansiart — Public Fediverse posts

Mistigram: this #ANSIart portrait of Studio Ghibli’s #PrincessMononoke was drawn by @[email protected] and included in a colly of similar small works (presumably for use on the anime-themed Shurato’s Heavenly Sphere BBS) in the new unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

Mistigram: this #ANSIart portrait of Studio Ghibli’s #PrincessMononoke was drawn by @[email protected] and included in a colly of similar small works (presumably for use on the anime-themed Shurato’s Heavenly Sphere BBS) in the new unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

Mistigram: this #ANSIart portrait of Studio Ghibli’s #PrincessMononoke was drawn by @[email protected] and included in a colly of similar small works (presumably for use on the anime-themed Shurato’s Heavenly Sphere BBS) in the new unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

Mistigram: this #ANSIart portrait of Studio Ghibli’s #PrincessMononoke was drawn by @[email protected] and included in a colly of similar small works (presumably for use on the anime-themed Shurato’s Heavenly Sphere BBS) in the new unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

MIST0826/ZII-ANMU5

Mistigram: this #ANSIart portrait of Studio Ghibli’s #PrincessMononoke was drawn by @zeusii and included in a colly of similar small works (presumably for use on the anime-themed Shurato’s Heavenly Sphere BBS) in the new unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

Mistodon: this #ANSIart portrait of Studio Ghibli's #PrincessMononoke was drawn by Zeus II and included in a colly of similar small works (presumably for use on the anime-themed Shurato's Heavenly Sphere BBS) in the new unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

Mistodon: this #ANSIart portrait of Studio Ghibli's #PrincessMononoke was drawn by Zeus II and included in a colly of similar small works (presumably for use on the anime-themed Shurato's Heavenly Sphere BBS) in the new unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

Mistodon: this #ANSIart portrait of Studio Ghibli's #PrincessMononoke was drawn by Zeus II and included in a colly of similar small works (presumably for use on the anime-themed Shurato's Heavenly Sphere BBS) in the new unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

Mistodon: this #ANSIart portrait of Studio Ghibli's #PrincessMononoke was drawn by Zeus II and included in a colly of similar small works (presumably for use on the anime-themed Shurato's Heavenly Sphere BBS) in the new unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

Mistodon: this #ANSIart portrait of Studio Ghibli's #PrincessMononoke was drawn by Zeus II and included in a colly of similar small works (presumably for use on the anime-themed Shurato's Heavenly Sphere BBS) in the new unthemed MIST0826 artpack collection.

Mistodon: this monochrome #unsi (#Unicode #ANSIart) image of a distinctively #Vulcan hand gesture 🖖 was drawn by @mcfresher and included in the new science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection. #LiveLongAndProsper

MIST0426/CT-THOMAS_PYNCHON-GRAVITY’S_RAINBOW

Mistigram: If you haven’t had the strange pleasure of reading #ThomasPynchon’s 1973 magnum opus #GravitysRainbow, “ostensibly about an American G.I. who seems to have a psychosexual connection to Nazi Germany’s V-2 rockets”, no gloss will really suffice. But because a picture says a thousand words, we here post Cthulu’s adaptation of #MarcGetter’s cover art to the postmodern novel, included in last month’s books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

With #Bubsy4D finally released, here's the original #Bubsy3D #FanArt I drew months before the announcement of Bubsy 4D spurred me to update it (https://chitter.xyz/@TheGreenHerring/115062422349186894)! After all, what could paw-sibly go wrong?

#FurryArt #ANSIArt #Bubsy #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #Art #MastoArt #FediArt #Furry

MIST0525/MIST0525.NFO

Mistigram: this #ANSIart portrait of #RogueOne and #Andor’s #K2SO was drawn by Zeus II for use as an infofile header in last year’s science fiction-themed MIST0525 artpack collection. #MayThe4thBeWithYou!

Ah yes, finally, a #screensaver for the 3 people who desperately need ANSI art streaming on their $2,000 #macOS machines. 🙄💻 Because nothing screams #productivity like staring at 1980s BBS art while GitHub tries to convince us its new AI features will revolutionize every aspect of our lives. 🤖💥
https://github.com/lardissone/ansi-saver #ANSIart #RetroTech #GitHubAI #HackerNews #ngated

Mistodon: this jolly radiology image by @littlebitspace was shown when departing the ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar BBS door. We have now shown its entire slate of daily screens, but it still offers a couple of further unshared illustrations.

ADVENT24/25_DEC24

Mistigram: The damn beautiful fool of an elf did it, he went too far this time, pulling off one final Christmas… but at what cost? This depiction of Santa’s gift-wrapped funeral was drawn by @littlebitspace and LDA for this date in last year’s ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.

#adventCalendar #ADVENT24 #ANSIArt #ChristmasDay #Dec25 #funeral #LDA #littlebitspace

Mistodon: The damn beautiful fool of an elf did it, he went too far this time, pulling off one last Christmas... but at what cost? This depiction of Santa's gift-wrapped funeral was drawn by @littlebitspace and LDA for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.

MIST1025/MM-COWBOY

Mistigram: this gaunt steed may only represent a hacker conveying himself through cyberspace (hence the ones and zeroes, and the accents in terminal green), but we felt that @mavenmob’s #ANSIart scene here was creepy enough to warrant inclusion in last month’s spooky MIST1025 artpack collection. (Isn’t having your private files rifled through by strangers scary enough?)

#ansiArt #hacker #halloween2 #horseman #mavenmob #mist1025

Mistigram: for last month's #anime-themed MIST0825 artpack collection, Nitron drew this #ANSIart portrait of #GalaxyExpress999's pirate queen #Emeraldas from the late '70s.

Mistodon: Cthulu felt awfully normcore (not a way he feels often!) cooking up a list of his favorite #anime and realising just how many of them were #StudioGhibli productions, but their output is solid even if his engagement with the genre is relatively superficial. He drew this #ANSIart tribute to 1997's #PrincessMononoke (with help from LDA and ConsoleJockey) for the new anime-themed MIST0825 artpack collection.

MIST0525/ZII-WADO

Mistigram: this #ANSIart portrait of #Maaya from the 2019 #Ultraman anime was drawn by Zeus II in promotion of Shurato’s Heavenly Sphere BBS at shsbbs.net. It was included in the new science fiction-themed MIST0525 artpack collection.

#ANSIArt #Maaya #MIST0525 #ShuratoSHeavenlySphere #Ultraman #ZeusII

MIST0525/US-SNITCH

Mistigram: this scurrilous snitch, Garindan ezz Zavor (aka “Long-Snoot”), nearly ruined the day of the Millennium Falcon’s crew when they were departing Mos Eisley in #StarWars. He was drawn in #ANSIart on our networked Moebius server by LDA and Zeus II, and included in the new science fiction-themed MIST0525 artpack collection.

#ANSIArt #GarindanEzzZavor #LDA #LongSnoot #MIST0525 #snitch #StarWars #ZeusII

MIST0525/CODEFENIX-MAY4TH

Mistigram: @Codefenix drew this #ANSIart #TIEFighter as part of a celebration of today’s obligatory nerdy observance. For the full treatment in a galaxy far, far away, visit Constructive Chaos BBS or stay tuned for the upcoming SF-themed MIST0525 artpack collection. #MayThe4thBeWithYou always!

#ANSIArt #codefenix #MayThe4th #MayThe4thBeWithYou #MayTheFourth #MIST0525 #StarWars #TIEFighter

Mistodon: 'Then he got an idea. An awful idea. #TheGrinch had a wonderful, awful idea.' LDA drew this incredible #ANSIart screen from #ChuckJones' 1966 animated adaptation of #DrSeuss' 1957 book #HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas for this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.

ADEPTAPRIL/NOV17

Mistigram: here’s a pandemic throwback for you: between the toilet paper shortages and the sea shanties, a lot of people stuck at home with an unexpected amount of free time on their hands temporarily took up the hobby of baking! If you missed it, fear not, as AdeptApril reminds us via #ANSIart that today is Homemade #Bread Day!

#17November #AdeptApril #ANSIArt #baking #break #Nov17

Mistodon: LDA continued on a lowkey spree of ANSIfying popular internet memes by making an #ANSIart version of this still from 2010's #Futurama S6E3, "Attack of the Killer App", only in this version #PhilipJFry isn't quite saying "#ShutUpAndTakeMyMoney!" This screen was included in the recent science fiction-themed MIST0524 artpack collection.

Mistigram: The first #ANSIart screen we profile from the new #fineart-themed MIST0424 artpack collection is this composition by @_n1tr0n, a juxtaposition of #sailboat racing with the neo-plasticism of #DeStijl painter #PietMondrian. The artist/sailor states he depicts: “my favorite moment in a boat race, the approach to the windward mark… the mondrian colors are supposed to reflect the elements of the scene, the sea, the sun, the sky, the racing spirit of the crew in red… I drew that ANSI the day I decided to sell the boat, actually.”

This image is secretly responsible for the specific timing of the release of our fine art collection, as tracking down the specific fate of a particular Nitron guest submission resulted in the discovery of an entire trove of worthwhile artworks on this theme that had been carefully stashed away and then forgotten about.

https://mistfunk.wordpress.com/2024/05/01/mist0424-ni-wapp/

#ANSIArt #ANSIart #deStijl #DeStijl #fineart #MIST0424 #Mondrian #Nitron #PietMondrian #PietMondrian #sailboat #sailing

Mistigram: The first #ANSIart screen we profile from the new #fineart-themed MIST0424 artpack collection is this composition by @_n1tr0n, a juxtaposition of #sailboat racing with the neo-plasticism of #DeStijl painter #PietMondrian. The artist/sailor states he depicts: "my favorite moment in a boat race, the approach to the windward mark... the mondrian colors are supposed to reflect the elements of the scene, the sea, the sun, the sky, the racing spirit of the crew in red... I drew that ANSI the day I decided to sell the boat, actually."

This image is secretly responsible for the specific timing of the release of our fine art collection, as tracking down the specific fate of a particular Nitron guest submission resulted in the discovery of an entire trove of worthwhile artworks on this theme that had been carefully stashed away and then forgotten about.

Not having added anything to #dos2ansi for a while now, I'd say v2.0 is the "final" version for now. I initially wanted that for v1.0, and it's amazing how many weird files, edge cases, and also ideas for improvements you can discover for something that "simple" 🙈

I have ideas for future development, like provide the core functionalities as a shared library, like add some config file for dos2ansi itself as well (instead of just for #showansi), maybe even more ... but all of that can wait, it's IMHO "complete" as it is.

A #Debian package is attached to the release on github, and a #FreeBSD port is added ... anyone wants to help make it available in more repositories? 😎 Would be most helpful if the fonts it uses by default are packaged as well and can be set as dependencies ...
https://repology.org/project/dos2ansi/versions

#retrocomputing #ansiart #msdos

Released: #dos2ansi v2.0
https://github.com/Zirias/dos2ansi/releases/tag/v2.0

The real "visible change" is documentation. #showansi now got a manpage as well, and the one for #dos2ansi improved a lot. Also better build instructions and some updates/corrections in the README. With these docs, you can hopefully make it do exactly what you want 😉

Also, the build system (my own homebrewn #GNU #make framework) got lots of improvements and fixes.
https://github.com/Zirias/zimk/

#ANSIart #MSDOS #retrocomputing

#dos2ansi v1.8 released!
https://github.com/Zirias/dos2ansi/releases/tag/v1.8

There's some major rework inside adding support for seekable streams, which was necessary to implement the logic detecting #SAUCE even when the preceding DOS EOF character is missing.

Quite some improvements to the #showansi script as well, now comes with "fontsets" (explained in the comments in these and the config file) 😎

Plus added a manpage. Wanted a single source of truth (shared with the help output) and didn't find a good tool for that, so I quickly came up with my own:
https://github.com/Zirias/mkclidoc
It's bundled with dos2ansi now. Can produce man in both classic troff and BSD mandoc. The default choice is based on `uname` for now, tested on #FreeBSD and #Debian.

#ANSIart #MSDOS #retrocomputing

I just released #dos2ansi v1.7, which includes one final bugfix: Quoted output of #SAUCE metadata should use proper "shell-style" quoting, so it can be directly consumed by #showansi, which it does now. Plus #showansi got a (tiny) bit of optimization.

https://github.com/Zirias/dos2ansi/releases/tag/v1.7

Well, just after releasing, I found more stuff to tackle. No, not new bugs at least.

But more weirdly broken ANSIart files. Example:
https://16colo.rs/pack/root0297/FU-B%26B.ANS

This one *has* SAUCE metadata, but it's not properly "hidden" behind a DOS EOF character (0x1a), which means even 'type' on a real DOS machine will output the SAUCE gibberish below the pic 🙈

So, there *might* be a v1.8 adding more heuristics to detect and parse more broken SAUCE ... 😂

#MSDOS #ANSIart #retrocomputing

Yet another revision, #dos2ansi v1.6.3
https://github.com/Zirias/dos2ansi/releases/tag/v1.6.3

--- brings yet another subtle bugfix in #showansi: To set the title with an escape sequence, it uses "printf %b" with its \-notation for control characters, so literal backslashes in the title must be escaped as well 🙈

Apart from that, added nice "portability bikeshed":

- Removed the dependency on 'sed' again, quoting/escaping strings for 'eval' *can* be done in pure #POSIX #shell script.

- Added proper detection of the POSIX shell to my #zimk build system, along with variables to override the choice. Used that to generate the shebang for #dos2ansi. Really an awesome way to write /bin/sh without writing /bin/sh 😂 (rumors say there *are* POSIX systems with the compliant shell in a different path ...)

Screenshot: Yet another file with "weird" title from #SAUCE

#ANSIart #MSDOS #retrocomupting

And now there's even #dos2ansi v1.6.2: https://github.com/Zirias/dos2ansi/releases/tag/v1.6.2

The good thing is: The issues I'm fixing here are getting more and more obscure 😂

First I noticed #xterm doesn't accept all #utf8 for its '-title' option, no matter what. But it *does* support the escape sequence to set a title, so, why not use this instead.

Having added support for that (and also optionally for setting the window size using an escape sequence), I had a look at quoting again. Indeed, #showansi failed for e.g. file names containing #shell special characters.

Therefore added a *safe* quote function. The downside is, it requires #sed now. Well ....

Screenshot shows both improvements, I picked a "maximum weird" file name and used a file that has an 'ö' in its title 🥳 -- in the showansi debugging output, you can see the quoting in action 🤯

#MSDOS #ANSIart #retrocomupting

Meanwhile:

* Added a #Debian (amd64) package to #dos2ansi v1.6 release (on Github)
* Updated the #FreeBSD port here: https://people.freebsd.org/~zirias/patches/0001-converters-dos2ansi-Add-new-port.patch
* There's of course still the #Windows binary attached to the release

Might push the FreeBSD port to official ports later ....

Screenshot: Random #showansi rendering ... 🙈

#MSDOS #ANSIart #retrocomputing

Just noticed the #showansi script from #dos2ansi is now "smarter" than the renderer on 16colo.rs 😂

When there's no (#SAUCE) metadata indicating the font to use, but the canvas after rendering turns out to be exactly 80x50 or 80x43, it just *guesses* that's most likely the VGA50 or EGA43 mode and picks that font 😉

(Of course, this "smartness" can be disabled with the "-S" flag)

Compare to this: https://16colo.rs/pack/avpack16/frg-ans2.ans

#ANSIart #MSDOS #retrocomputing

#dos2ansi v1.6:
https://github.com/Zirias/dos2ansi/releases/tag/v1.6

* Fix cursor movement again, it never wraps or scrolls.
* Many smaller improvements to the #showansi script
* Add an example configuration using scalable fonts from https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/ instead of the default bitmap fonts

Scalable fonts are a tradeoff here. You get freely configurable sizes and correction of aspect ratio. You lose pixel-perfect (perfectly sharp) display. You can't have both, unfortunately.

Screenshot shows scalable fonts 😉

#MSDOS #ANSIart #retrocomputing

y ami so excited r/unixporn is back?
https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/15aas8k/none_miasma_life_in_the_tty/

when they kicked me out of being a mod, i quit posting there for a while. funny how the #redditblackout piqued my interest once again

#rice #noricenolife #unixporn #ricing #unix #linux #screenshot #desktop #neovim #nvim #ascii #ansi #asciiart #ansiart #textart #textmode #xerostyle