#ansiart — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ansiart, aggregated by home.social.
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Mistodon: the great thing about hitting on an artpack theme like that of books, recently explored in last month's new MIST0426, is being reminded just how many different kinds of books there are. Here Cthulu has (with great difficulty) adapted to #ANSIart Bob Barner's doodly cover artwork to #DavidHAhl's seminal 101 #BASIC Computer Games, a 1973 volume of fun #typein code listings published by the Digital Equipment Corporation.
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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.
#ANSIArt #CommonwealthSaga #MIST0426 #MorningStarMountain #PandoraSStar #PeterFHamilton #ZeusII -
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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.
#ANSIArt #CommonwealthSaga #MIST0426 #MorningStarMountain #PandoraSStar #PeterFHamilton #ZeusII -
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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.
#ANSIArt #CommonwealthSaga #MIST0426 #MorningStarMountain #PandoraSStar #PeterFHamilton #ZeusII -
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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.
#ANSIArt #CommonwealthSaga #MIST0426 #MorningStarMountain #PandoraSStar #PeterFHamilton #ZeusII -
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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.
#ANSIArt #CommonwealthSaga #MIST0426 #MorningStarMountain #PandoraSStar #PeterFHamilton #ZeusII -
Mistodon: 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 Zeus II for last month's new literature-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.
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Mistodon: 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 Zeus II for last month's new literature-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.
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Mistodon: 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 Zeus II for last month's new literature-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.
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Mistodon: 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 Zeus II for last month's new literature-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.
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Mistodon: 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 Zeus II for last month's new literature-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.
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Mistodon: for last month's new books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection, Moth decided to celebrate #JamesGleick's 1987 book #ChaosMakingANewScience, a key volume in the popularization of #chaostheory, requiring the manual #ANSIart illustration of #fractal imagery on its cover, on which LDA helped out.
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Mistodon: looking for representation from the non-fiction field for last month's new literary MIST0426 artpack collection, Cthulu opted to make an #ANSIart adaptation of the maze-like cover art to @nickmofo 's 2005 history of the #textadventure computer game genre, #TwistyLittlePassages.
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Mistodon: back in 2022 Tapio drew this #ANSIart (ish) illustration of the scene in J.R.R. Tolkien's #FellowshipOfTheRing where #Gandalf faces off against the #Balrog in the Mines of Moria. We shared it in last month's new books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.
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Mistodon: this #ANSIart portrait of #RogueOne and #Andor's #K2SO was drawn by @zeusii for use as an infofile header in last year's science fiction-themed MIST0525 artpack collection. #MayThe4thBeWithYou!
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Mistodon: this #ANSIart portrait of #RogueOne and #Andor's #K2SO was drawn by @zeusii for use as an infofile header in last year's science fiction-themed MIST0525 artpack collection. #MayThe4thBeWithYou!
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Mistodon: this #ANSIart portrait of #RogueOne and #Andor's #K2SO was drawn by @zeusii for use as an infofile header in last year's science fiction-themed MIST0525 artpack collection. #MayThe4thBeWithYou!
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Mistodon: this #ANSIart portrait of #RogueOne and #Andor's #K2SO was drawn by @zeusii for use as an infofile header in last year's science fiction-themed MIST0525 artpack collection. #MayThe4thBeWithYou!
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Mistodon: this #ANSIart portrait of #RogueOne and #Andor's #K2SO was drawn by @zeusii for use as an infofile header in last year's science fiction-themed MIST0525 artpack collection. #MayThe4thBeWithYou!
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When most people think about the classic BBS door game Barren Realms Elite, they probably remember the drippy logo from John Dailey's 1999 release.
But, in fact, BRE went through *many* different title screens during the years it was under active development by its creator, Mehul Patel.
Check out this gallery of 14 BRE title screens, culled from my collection of 40 BRE releases between 1992 and 1997.
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/05/02/the-many-ansi-title-screens-of-barren-realms-elite/
#bbs #retrocomputing #retrogaming #vintagecomputing #ansiart
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For the last 25 years, Barren Realms Elite (BRE) has been frozen in amber, with the same ANSI title screen.
But it was preceded by _lots_ of other designs from 1992-97.
I put together a gallery of 14 of these forgotten screens:
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/05/02/the-many-ansi-title-screens-of-barren-realms-elite/
I hope you'll enjoy revisiting the changing looks of a classic BBS door game.
#bbs #retrocomputing #retrogaming #InternetHistory #history #vintagecomputing #ansiart #ansi #textmode
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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!)
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Mistodon: one of the first #ANSIart 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!)
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Mistodon: this #ANSIart screen by AdeptApril is the first file to appear, alphabetically, in the new books-themed MIST0426 artpack, so it is also the first individual work from that collection that we will profile. On request from Zeromous, it is an adaptation of the front cover to #CliffordStoll's 1989 hacker bestseller #TheCuckoosEgg .
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Mistodon: this #ANSIart personification of an IRC URL-previewing bot, navi, was drawn by Picrotoxin and included in the recent unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection. Beep boop!
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Mistodon: LDA continued his campaign of drawing #ANSIart tributes to his Mistigris colleagues here in this celebration of @consolejockey , whose program we use to syndicate these Mistigram posts across several microblogging services. (The mutual appreciation society continued below, where ConsoleJockey drew a reciprocal tribute to LDA! But we only have so much screen space to work with here, so stay tuned.) This piece was included in the recent unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.
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Mistodon: This shiny #ANSIart advertisement for the Golden Temple BBS, reachable by connecting via telnet to bbs.iswix.com:6800, was drawn by @zeusii and included in the recent unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.
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Mistodon: Happy #Easter! This #ANSIart portrait of #JesusChrist, titled Love is Vulnerability, was drawn by @mavenmob, winning 1st place in the @flashparty 2025 demoparty's extended text art compo. It was also included in the recent unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.
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Featured at Revision 2026 (@revisionparty): "Greetings, Earthlings!", my PC ANSI entry to the ASCII/ANSI/PETSCII Compo!
(If you are only seeing the UFO, click to see the full picture!)
#ANSIArt #SciFiArt #RevisionParty #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #FurryArt #Art #MastoArt #FediArt #Demoscene #Demoparty
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Happy World Autism Acceptance Day from "Cyber Purge" v2.21, the final content update, released on February 21, 2026!
https://thegreenherring.itch.io/cyber-purge-zzt
#FurryArt #ANSIArt #IndieGame #AutismAcceptanceDay #ZZT #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #Furry #Art #MastoArt #FediArt
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A #retrocomputing #longreads recommendation for your Sunday:
In 1992, a year before the Web opened to the public, Texas entrepreneur Don Lokke was trying to syndicate weekly political cartoons to bulletin board systems.
His "telecomics," as he called them, represent an overlooked early experiment in online comics, and a window into an interesting moment in American politics.
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/03/25/don-lokke-and-mack-the-mouse/
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Still, political ANSI art was more of an exception in the early 1990s. PD artists were more likely to be inspired by pop culture or the theme of a particular BBS.
When the 1992 presidential election came around, not many PD ANSI artists depicted candidates or key moments.
St. Louis-based Dave Hartmann was one of the few. Here are a couple fun screens he drew.
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https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/03/25/don-lokke-and-mack-the-mouse/
#ansiart #bbs #textmode #art #pixelart #politics #history #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing
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In 1990-91, America was involved in a very different conflict along the Persian Gulf. Polls showed Americans strongly supported the war effort.
On BBSes, this led to a profusion of patriotic, sometimes humorous, war-themed ANSI art. Aaron Kuhn (@DialupDownload) collected some in 2014:
https://philly2600.net/posts/sixteen-colors-of-liberation/Here are a few more examples of PD ANSI pieces that were not collected in Aaron’s post.
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https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/03/25/don-lokke-and-mack-the-mouse/
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Lokke gave away his "Mack the Mouse" telecomics for free, hoping to entice BBS sysops to pay for access to his Online Publishing business.
Subscribers could download extra content like his other telecomics "Talking Heads," "Rainbow," "Reggie the Rattler," and "Yellow Bird."
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/03/25/don-lokke-and-mack-the-mouse/
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #comics #webcomics #history #longreads #politics #ansiart #textmode #arthistory
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Lokke began publishing his "telecomics" at the height of the 1992 presidential election.
He used them to channel the skepticism and anger felt by everyday Americans about broken political promises and the looming economic recession.
He would go on to draw nearly 300 telecomics by 1995. They were forgotten and mostly lost until decades later when I recovered more than 140 of them.
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/03/25/don-lokke-and-mack-the-mouse/
#retrocomputing #comics #webcomics #history #ansiart #textmode #longreads
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In an alternate universe somewhere, nobody has heard of “webcomics.” Instead, there are thousands of “telecomics.”
In 1992, Don Lokke Jr. coined the term “telecomics” to describe his new digital comic strips, drawn primarily in the ANSI art format and distributed online through BBSes.
This is the final in-depth profile in my "ANSI art and webcomics" series!
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/03/25/don-lokke-and-mack-the-mouse/
#webcomics #comics #retrocomputing #bbs #ansiart #textmode #longreads #history #computerhistory
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The workstages of Kaoru fighting a robot! It started as a narrow strip, some stages were done on my Steam Deck at work, and the robot was drawn in a separate file before I merged it into the main one.
#Timelapse #FurryArt #ANSIArt #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #FantasyArt #Nonbinary #Furry #Art #MastoArt #FediArt
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Most mages need their feet on solid ground to cast magic, but Kaoru Morimoto (they/them) is not most mages.
#FurryArt #ANSIArt #FantasyArt #Nonbinary #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #Furry #Art #MastoArt #FediArt
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RE: https://digipres.club/@kirkman/116241827181329943
My forthcoming profile of Don Lokke and his "telecomics" has been a lot harder to write than I expected.
But I'm very happy with the latest drafts. The end is finally in sight.
(This will be the fifth and final installment of my "ANSI art and webcomics" series: https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/ansi-art-and-webcomics/?order=asc)
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #ansiart #textmode #textart #comics #webcomics #history #computerhistory #longreads
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RE: https://digipres.club/@kirkman/116241827181329943
My forthcoming profile of Don Lokke and his "telecomics" has been a lot harder to write than I expected.
But I'm very happy with the latest drafts. The end is finally in sight.
(This will be the fifth and final installment of my "ANSI art and webcomics" series: https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/ansi-art-and-webcomics/?order=asc)
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #ansiart #textmode #textart #comics #webcomics #history #computerhistory #longreads
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RE: https://digipres.club/@kirkman/116241827181329943
My forthcoming profile of Don Lokke and his "telecomics" has been a lot harder to write than I expected.
But I'm very happy with the latest drafts. The end is finally in sight.
(This will be the fifth and final installment of my "ANSI art and webcomics" series: https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/ansi-art-and-webcomics/?order=asc)
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #ansiart #textmode #textart #comics #webcomics #history #computerhistory #longreads
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RE: https://digipres.club/@kirkman/116241827181329943
My forthcoming profile of Don Lokke and his "telecomics" has been a lot harder to write than I expected.
But I'm very happy with the latest drafts. The end is finally in sight.
(This will be the fifth and final installment of my "ANSI art and webcomics" series: https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/ansi-art-and-webcomics/?order=asc)
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #ansiart #textmode #textart #comics #webcomics #history #computerhistory #longreads
