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jzzskijj on Jan 29, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Artpacks.org – Archive of the ANSI and AS...

Your information about Amiga isn't correct. In Europe Amiga had really vital Amiga BBS scene. ANSI "BBS" art as a product of IBM-PC world is only true, if you're talking about this so-called "block ascii" that was made using PC's CP437 character set. On Amiga there was a huge amount of artists doing "line ascii" based ansi art for boards (ISO-8859-1).

For example in 1995 in Sweden there were still loads of Amiga boards: http://www.textfiles.com/bbs/BBSLISTS/elite01.txt

This is the list of boards the list maintainer considered worthy to be listed.

pjbrunet on Feb 1, 2015 | [–]

Good to know. That was so long ago, it's possible I just had PC-based lists and forgot there were other lists.

sjs382 on Jan 29, 2015 | [–]

See impure packs for a great example of Amiga style ANSI!

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