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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: you think you're having a hard time in the sweltering sun, have a thought for this fully-armoured member of the #KnightsTemplar crusading in the Egyptian desert circa the 12th/13th century, here drawn in #ANSIart by Darkman Almighty. This piece was included in the MIST0822 artpack collection released four years ago this month.

Mistigram: Cthulu recently stumbled across a copy of #BruceSterling's seminal #Mirrorshades #cyberpunk anthology in a used bookstore and took it as a sign from The Algorithm to adapt its evocative cover artwork to #ANSIart for the recent science fiction-themed MIST0526 artpack collection.

Mistodon: still with the books-themed MIST0426 on the brain, Cthulu recently stumbled across a copy of #BruceSterling's seminal #Mirrorshades #cyberpunk anthology in a used bookstore, and took it as a sign from The Algorithm to adapt its evocative cover artwork to #ANSIart for the recent science fiction-themed MIST0526 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/US-DIANE_W_YOUNG-ADVENTURES_IN_A_MINOR_ORDER

Mistigram: sometimes we celebrate canonical classics established through the ages and sometimes, as in Ratatouille, we discover and defend the new. In this #ANSIart screen Moth (with help from LDA) reproduces the cover photograph of a new entomological monograph, #DianeWYoung’s #AdventuresInAMinorOrder, pertaining to the #booklice and #barklice of #psosoptera. If you have a strong interest in the subject and money is no object, you can purchase a copy today via https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/4463637180/adventures-in-a-minor-order-insects This piece was included in last month’s books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

MIST0426/ZII-MLMR

Mistigram: to you, this may just look like an #ANSIart landscape illustration. But if you’ve read #PeterFHamilton’s 2004 SF novel #PandorasStar, kicking off his #CommonwealthSaga, you may recognize the creation of the powerful #MorningStarMountain hivemind here. This piece was drawn by @zeusii.bsky.social for last month’s new literature-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

Mistigram: one of the first screens Cthulu started when the idea of doing a books-themed artpack came up (and also, after quite some turbulance, the very last one he finished), this adaptation of the typographical cover design to the 1999 Mariner Press edition of #JoseSaramago’s #Blindness was included in last month’s new literary MIST0426 artpack collection. (The artist thanks Yvonne for lending her copy so many years ago!)

Mistodon: here's Lobo/Spitoufs' #ANSIart cover page to #EdgarAllanPoe's #MasqueOfTheRedDeath, part of their #ANSIPOE collection illustrating Poe's complete works for BBS-based consumption. They were all included in the MIST1017 artpack collection released 8 years ago this month.

Mistodon: here's Lobo/Spitoufs' #ANSIart cover page to #EdgarAllanPoe's #MasqueOfTheRedDeath, part of their #ANSIPOE collection illustrating Poe's complete works for BBS-based consumption. They were all included in the MIST1017 artpack collection released 8 years ago this month.

Mistodon: here's Lobo/Spitoufs' #ANSIart cover page to #EdgarAllanPoe's #MasqueOfTheRedDeath, part of their #ANSIPOE collection illustrating Poe's complete works for BBS-based consumption. They were all included in the MIST1017 artpack collection released 8 years ago this month.

Mistodon: here's Lobo/Spitoufs' #ANSIart cover page to #EdgarAllanPoe's #MasqueOfTheRedDeath, part of their #ANSIPOE collection illustrating Poe's complete works for BBS-based consumption. They were all included in the MIST1017 artpack collection released 8 years ago this month.

Mistodon: here's Lobo/Spitoufs' #ANSIart cover page to #EdgarAllanPoe's #MasqueOfTheRedDeath, part of their #ANSIPOE collection illustrating Poe's complete works for BBS-based consumption. They were all included in the MIST1017 artpack collection released 8 years ago this month.

Mistodon: providing a little connective tissue between our #cat-filled July and our #anime August, here is a flat toon #ANSIart portrait of Katy (aka Chao) from 1981's The Fantastic Adventures of #Unico, based on the manga by #OsamuTezuka. Cthulu made this rather unlikely selection to adapt as Unico was the sole specimen of anime in his family's media collection growing up.

Mistodon: @TheGreenHerring has really dug deep into gaming history to unearth the subject of this #ANSIart scene, Video System's 1987 arcade game #RabioLepus, wherein #rabbit-shaped spaceships defend the realm of #BUNNYLAND from invaders! This piece was included in the new science fiction-themed MIST0525 artpack collection.

Along with three of my "Alien Shapes" pieces, @mistfunk's MIST0525.‍ZIP (https://16colo.rs/pack/mist0525) includes my #FanArt of the old arcade game "Rabio Lepus", with Rabio and Lepus in the first stage of their rescue mission!

#RabioLepus #SciFiArt #ANSIArt #TextmodeArt #Art #FediArt #MastoArt #PixelArt #ラビオレプス #イラスト #ドット絵 #二次創作 #ファンアート

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: this #ANSIart accompanied the culmination of #EdgarAllanPoe's #MasqueOfTheRedDeath in Lobo Spitouf's complete illustrated #ANSIPOE collection for BBSes, reprinted in the MIST1017 artpack collection released seven years ago this month.

Mistodon: this #ANSIart accompanied the culmination of #EdgarAllanPoe's #MasqueOfTheRedDeath in Lobo Spitouf's complete illustrated #ANSIPOE collection for BBSes, reprinted in the MIST1017 artpack collection released seven years ago this month.

Mistodon: this #ANSIart accompanied the culmination of #EdgarAllanPoe's #MasqueOfTheRedDeath in Lobo Spitouf's complete illustrated #ANSIPOE collection for BBSes, reprinted in the MIST1017 artpack collection released seven years ago this month.

Mistodon: this #ANSIart accompanied the culmination of #EdgarAllanPoe's #MasqueOfTheRedDeath in Lobo Spitouf's complete illustrated #ANSIPOE collection for BBSes, reprinted in the MIST1017 artpack collection released seven years ago this month.

Mistodon: this #ANSIart accompanied the culmination of #EdgarAllanPoe's #MasqueOfTheRedDeath in Lobo Spitouf's complete illustrated #ANSIPOE collection for BBSes, reprinted in the MIST1017 artpack collection released seven years ago this month.

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

Mistodon: AdeptApril gives us a great opportunity to remind everyone, using #ANSIart, that today is #InternationalWomensDay. #InspireInclusion!

#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

Never say something is finished 🙈

Browsing https://16colo.rs/ I found some #ansiart file that immediately had my attention because it crashed my #terminfo writer. Turns out attempting fallback to #termcap names makes no sense with terminfo ... although it shouldn't hurt either, but it did with "xterm-256color" on #FreeBSD for the "blink"/"mb" capability, "mb" returned something, but something "else" 🙄 ... so I fixed that.

This file was strange enough to use it for more testing, it had "blinking" characters (according to #SAUCE), although ignoring that and using bright colors instead looked much more sane, see two screenshots for comparison (oh wow, #xterm can actually blink? although not like #VGA would...)

Anyways, I found a lot more things to optimize and fix in both my "plain ANSI" and "terminfo" color writers!

So, there will be #dos2ansi v1.2 soon. Will probably add some small feature first, just "because" 😂

Mistodon: this #ANSIart logo for #DoveNet was drawn by CodeFenix of ConstructiveChaos BBS as part of a suite of iconography promoting that network of inter-BBS message bases. This is a neutrally-coloured version, with more colourful variations on its theme also included in the new MIST0223 artpack collection.