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Today I'm trying to push the boundaries of what pixel art means by combining pixelated ASCII art (thanks to the excellent #jgs font by @adelfaure ), pixelated ink illustration and "hand drawn" glitch effects. 200 × 400 pixels, 2 colors. #cephalopod for #pixel_dailies #calamar #squid #ink #illustration #experimental #glitch #digitalart #mixedMedia #1bit #warmGrey #ASCIIart #textmode #pixelart #ドット絵 @pixel_dailies
So, my ANSI entry was shown on the big screen at @revisionparty. Better than nothing! 
#PunkySkunk got a raw deal as a video game hero on account of his game coming out at exactly the wrong time. But some folks out there still remember, and so I drew him looking rather dashing for a skunk in a jumpsuit with a pogo stick. I love how this one came out!
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.
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!
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Made for a RPG style dialog screen mockup for The Wind through the Wheels inspired by Roadwarden main screen
![The picture is divided in two parts. On left the lighthouse of the previous post and on right a dialog box featuring the portrait of a fisherman. The dialog box include text : "[...] storey was a temple with a domed roof notable for the beauty of its mosaic. [fisherman portrait] John the fisherman: Now year gone by, we find someone who rules the sea. He sets out on a dark May morning to bring its catch back to this small community. He did not see the danger dawning. Four hours up, oh, the Cycle swelled and swelled. The fog rolled in, it started raining... --- answers --- What happened then ? _ I think I see where this goes... "](https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonart/media_attachments/files/114/080/541/916/544/551/original/b3d3b0d199d55415.png "The picture is divided in two parts. On left the lighthouse of the previous post and on right a dialog box featuring the portrait of a fisherman. The dialog box include text : \"[...] storey was a temple with a domed roof notable for the beauty of its mosaic. [fisherman portrait] John the fisherman: Now year gone by, we find someone who rules the sea. He sets out on a dark May morning to bring its catch back to this small community. He did not see the danger dawning. Four hours up, oh, the Cycle swelled and swelled. The fog rolled in, it started raining... --- answers --- What happened then ? _ I think I see where this goes... \"")
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!
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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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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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The first version of my textmode graphics editor made in/for Picotron is released!
Deuce recently added support for the Atari ST flavor of VT52 to his SyncTerm program.
I first requested this feature 14 years ago. I was so excited it finally happened, that I made a new VT52 animation to celebrate.
Plus I dug up six more that I have never seen published anywhere else.
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2025/02/15/some-love-for-vt52-on-the-atari-st/
Break Into Chat · Some love for VT52 on the Atari ST - Break Into ChatOne of this Atarian’s dreams has come true, though it took almost 14 years. Last week, Deuce (Stephen Hurd) released SyncTerm v1.6, which adds initial support for the Atari ST’s VT52 emulation mode, as well as the three ST screen resolutions and color palettes. Today, I made a short new VT-52 text animation to celebrate: […]
Let’s get ready for the first day of Lovebyte!
Join the live-stream on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/lovebytedemoparty) and get more info at https://lovebyte.party.
« nanoCave »
A Rogue-like game for your Atari ST.
Code : @Shaoth
Music: Dma-Sc
Gfx : pépé
- Explore an infinite number of randomly generated levels.
- 26 different powerful enemies
- 60+ weapons, armour, scrolls, rings, potions
- 50+ achievements and trophies
A true #retrogaming experience with many retro graphic environments like #textmode #atari2600 #zx81 #zxspectrum #cga #amstrad #apple2 #c64 #gameboy #macintosh
More info : https://electric-dreams.itch.io/nano-cave
This is a friendly reminder that anyone can contribute to the lovebyte.party!
It is a party about tiny intros, that is held online on the weekend of 15. - 16. Feb 2025.
A recent experiment. I made an "ascii automata" which on click places a random glyph, then analyzes if the character "touches" any of the glyph edges, then places another random character which continues the edge connection, and so forth, until it places a character that doesn't touch any edges. I made it so that you can mix and match different character sets from the dropdown menu (or load your own as png).
You can play with it at:
https://hlnet.neocities.org/ascii-automata/
