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Can someone explain to me (or provide a link) how you make this type of ascii art?

I've made this kind of ascii art before and it's boring: http://www.incredibleart.org/links/ascii.html

I want to make ascii art like this: http://artpacks.org/1990/acidnews.zip/INN.ANS

See the difference?




Install Pablodraw: http://picoe.ca/products/pablodraw/

Read these tutorials: http://blocktronics.org/view-project/zo-flyingeagletutorial/ http://blocktronics.org/view-project/zv-fonthow2/ http://blocktronics.org/view-project/zv-tutorial/

Then just profit :)


I discovered that the characters used in that style are called "Block" or "High" ascii and are only found in DOS! That explains why I've never been able to make that style on linux.


PabloDraw is available on Linux if you have Mono and gtk-sharp2.


Thank you for your comments! I will try this out later today!




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