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**Soldier of FORTRAN ** @mainframed767@infosec.exchange · 1d *

1d *

Soldier of FORTRAN  @mainframed767@infosec.exchange

Just prepping some ANSI art for our contest @defcon

An ANSI art conversion of the DEFCON 33 art with the number 33 in green and a gold key cutting through them at the bottom

#defcon #DEFCON33 #ansiart

**Mistigris computer arts** @mistfunk@oldbytes.space · 4d

Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk@oldbytes.space

Mistodon: originally drawn in #pixelart as part of @grymmjack 's "food gang" as seen a few days ago, this saucy character was redrawn in #ANSIart as interface art for the new IMBIBE01 food-themed electronic magazine. We then took things a step further and also used him in a promo for Chicago's #textmode art-loving @paperthinpizza , purveyors of delicious pies and terrible Figlet logos.

An ambulatory slice of pepperoni pizza wearing a chef's hat contemplates his next move.

**xero** @xero@haunted.computer · 4d

xero @xero@haunted.computer

g'nite, im done coding cp437 to UTF8 encoders for #ansiart for tonight.

**The Green Herring** @TheGreenHerring@chitter.xyz · 6d

The Green Herring @TheGreenHerring@chitter.xyz

Mason Kirk () and Gale Fields () are among the forces defending cyberspace in the world of "Cyber Purge" (https://thegreenherring.itch.io/cyber-purge-zzt). Here they are ready to practice their martial arts and stay in shape in the physical world as well as the digital!

In the middle of a desert at night, with sand, rice grass and rocks around their feet, two shapeshifters in the forms of muscular animal men stand beside each other in fighting stances with clenched fists ready to begin practice.

To one side, Mason Kirk, a kangaroo with a huge tail, deep red in color with a white underbelly and cyan eyes, stands with one arm tensed at his side, the other out in front, and his legs apart. Dressed in dark cyan with white accents, he is wearing only elbow and knee braces, a bandanna tied around his tail, fingerless gloves and ankle protectors, and a long loincloth. He is wide-hipped with markings that resemble top surgery scars, a pouch on his belly, and gigantic legs which end in long kangaroo feet with thick, sharp claws.

To the other side, Gale Fields, a big white hare with long black hair and red eyes, stands with his arms tensed and held behind and in front. Clad in deep red with black trimmings, he is only wearing compression sleeves, gym shorts with a black belt tipped in red tied in front, and ankle protectors. He is profoundly stocky, with a big muscle gut on display, hips and legs so built that they render his shorts form-fitting, and long, thick rabbit's feet tipped with big claws.

The image is signed "TGH! 2025" and the address "thegreenherring.neocities.org" appears in the corner of the image.

#MastoArt #FediArt #ANSIArt

**Indy Joenz** @IndyJoenz@mstdn.social · Mar 8

Mar 8

Indy Joenz @IndyJoenz@mstdn.social

Durdraw 0.29.0 has been released! New features include Durview, (an artpack viewer with 16colo.rs integration), custom character sets, better handling of large files, and more. Check it out at https://github.com/cmang/durdraw

#linux #ansi #ansiart

**Josh Renaud** @kirkman@digipres.club · Mar 5

Mar 5

Josh Renaud @kirkman@digipres.club

ABC shut down FiveThirtyEight, once an amazing site for data-driven journalism and sports analysis.

I loved incorporating 538's data into old-school #retrocomputing and BBS projects, like my ANSI "Elex Forecast" BBS door. It used data from their 2016 and 2020 Election Forecast visualizations.

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2016/10/04/who-needs-svg-when-youve-got-ansi/

https://github.com/Kirkman/elexforecast

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#ansi #ansiart #bbs

**The Green Herring** @TheGreenHerring@chitter.xyz · Mar 1

Mar 1

The Green Herring @TheGreenHerring@chitter.xyz

You're down at the local bar, and so are a couple of pretty faces who've taken an interest in you. Would you like to join them?

Much-belated birthday art featuring me and my #SecondLife DJ avatar Sonari Ojorado!

At a local bar, two genderfluid shapeshifters assuming feminine forms while wearing glasses and dresses are at the counter.

One of them is a smiling green fishperson with a long and thick tail, wearing red-rimmed glasses in a red side-slit dress with black rubber straps, trimming and corset; long red gloves with black trims; and red thigh-high boots with black trimming and instep as well as exposed ankles and toes.

The other person is a small, smirking, golden fennec fox with antennae, a black jewel in their forehead and a massive bushy tail, as well as black fur on their arms and legs suggesting gloves and stockings, and a tuft of black fur on their chin. They are wearing blue-rimmed glasses, a blue collar, a long blue dress, gold bracelets and anklets, and gold rings on their fingers and toes.

The fish is resting one hand on the counter and beckoning the viewer with their other hand as they pull up a stool for the viewer to sit on using their tail; while the fox is sitting on the counter propped up with one arm and the other resting on their raised knee, their skirt falling over the edge.

#ANSIArt #TextmodeArt #PixelArt

**The Green Herring** @TheGreenHerring@chitter.xyz · Feb 27

Feb 27

The Green Herring @TheGreenHerring@chitter.xyz

It's not easy to fit a pleasant vista into precisely 256 text characters, but I did it for "A Pleasant Vista", my entry into the jam-packed Text Graphics Competition at @lovebyteparty 2025!

Drawn with a combination of text and block characters at an extremely low resolution, we bear witness to a mountain with a leftover snow cap on a pleasant day with birds flying through the air. It overlooks the thick brush of a forest next to a lively lake.

#Art #Lovebyte2025 #Demoparty

Feb 27

Feb 27

Mistigris computer arts, est. 1994 @mistfunk.wordpress.com@mistfunk.wordpress.com

MIST-30/MM-CRTANGEL

Mistigram: the fondly-remembered spirit of a bygone era, @mavenmob’s #ANSIart illustration ‘CRT Angel’ manages to enshrine a species of technological nostalgia. This screen was included in the MIST-30 artpack celebration.

#Mavenmob #MIST30

**Mistigris computer arts** @mistfunk@oldbytes.space · Feb 27

Feb 27

Mistigris computer arts @mistfunk@oldbytes.space

Mistodon: the fondly-remembered spirit of a bygone era, mavenmob@oldbytes.space's #ANSIart illustration 'CRT Angel' manages to enshrine a species of technological nostalgia. This screen was included in the MIST-30 artpack celebration.

In a gentle pink palette, a cathode ray tube monitor that has given up the ghost ascends to the heavens against a white background, leaving a glitchy trail of gossamer box-drawing characters in its wake.

**Björn Odendahl** @nail7@mastodon.social · Feb 24

Feb 24

Björn Odendahl @nail7@mastodon.social

Happy Twin Peaks Day.
RIP David Lynch.

#ansi #ansiart #textmode

**Indy Joenz** @IndyJoenz@mstdn.social · Feb 24

Feb 24

Indy Joenz @IndyJoenz@mstdn.social

I drew @BrodieOnLinux as ASCII art, because his Linux youtube channels are sweet.

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#asciiart #ansiart #ascii

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**Josh Renaud** @kirkman@digipres.club · Feb 20 *

Feb 20 *

Josh Renaud @kirkman@digipres.club

FANSI had its own file format -- .FAN -- which I'm hoping to write a parser for.

I learned something new today from Eric March about the .FAN format.

The first ~6K is character data -- every character, along with its FG and BG color, for the 80 columns and 24 lines.

But the final 30K is bitmap data -- a full screen dump of the image as it is displayed in the editor.

Why?
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#atarist #atari #ansi

**Josh Renaud** @kirkman@digipres.club · Feb 20 *

Feb 20 *

Josh Renaud @kirkman@digipres.club

Recently I've been working on a fork of libansilove and ansilove-c that adds support for using fonts and color palettes derived from the Atari ST programs ANSIterm and FANSI.

FANSI was a really slick ANSI editor for the ST from Eric March.

It was a godsend to me as a teen when it was released in 1994. Finally I had a way to draw my own ANSI art in the full 16 colors.

If only it had come out a few years earlier!
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#atarist #atari #ansi

**Indy Joenz** @IndyJoenz@mstdn.social · Feb 15

Feb 15

Indy Joenz @IndyJoenz@mstdn.social

I made an #ascii art logo for #nuxt js.

#asciiart #ansiart #linux

**The Green Herring** @TheGreenHerring@chitter.xyz · Feb 8 *

Feb 8 *

The Green Herring @TheGreenHerring@chitter.xyz

#FebROOary is here, so here's a kangaroo sunbathing on the beach. Her name is Cynthia Kane (she/her), and she's happy to see you!

At the beach, a green-eyed, red kangaroo woman with brown and white fur lays on a magenta towel laid on the sand. She has long, brown hair and is wearing a one-piece magenta swimsuit. She is laying on one hip while propping herself on one elbow, relaxing her other arm on her other hip while tapping her outer thigh with one finger, and stretching out her leg to show off its length and strength. Her fingers have claws on each tip, and she has long kangaroo feet with three toes and thick claws on the tips. She looks at the viewer with a self-satisfied smile appreciating the attention she's getting.

#MastoArt #ANSIArt #FurryArt

**Indy Joenz** @IndyJoenz@mstdn.social · Feb 8

Feb 8

Indy Joenz @IndyJoenz@mstdn.social

I have no idea what I'm doing, but I made a tiny intro to #durdraw video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDFSiKTWtG0

YouTubeThe best ASCII Art Editor for LinuxBy Indy'z Tech

#linux #ansiart #asciiart

**The Green Herring** @TheGreenHerring@chitter.xyz · Feb 3 *

Feb 3 *

The Green Herring @TheGreenHerring@chitter.xyz

At the end of 2024, @mistfunk published MIST-30.‍ZIP (https://16colo.rs/pack/mist-30/) for their 30th anniversary! The second of my two contributions to the artpack was this VGA #ANSIArt redraw of a piece of raster art (https://16colo.rs/pack/mist0396/GR_SHADE.GIF, pic 2) by Thanatos, then known as Grim Reaper, originally drawn in 1996 to advertise the now long gone Shades of a Shade #BBS in New Westminster, Canada.

An extreme close-up of a dragon's left eye, showing the details of the red scales on its face. In its eye, the reflection of a ghostly, humanoid figure can be seen. The image is drawn using text and block characters in a constricted palette of only black, white, two shades of red, and two shades of gray.

The original version of the image by Grim Reaper from 1996, drawn as higher-res but less refined dithered pixelart in a richer palette, and featuring the name and number of the Shades of a Shade BBS.

#MastoArt #PixelArt #TextmodeArt

**The Green Herring** @TheGreenHerring@chitter.xyz · Feb 2

Feb 2

The Green Herring @TheGreenHerring@chitter.xyz

Right at the end of 2024, @mistfunk released MIST-30.ZIP (https://16colo.rs/pack/mist-30/) for their 30th anniversary, and I contributed two pieces! One is this #ANSIArt redraw of a 1997 artpack piece (https://16colo.rs/pack/mist3yrb/SK-PUNK.JPG) by the late Silent Knight (pic 2).