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Never jammed out to an Adobe Pro patcher harder (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Warez and their .txt readmes. They would do that ASCII art by hand.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How else can it be done? Any attempt to convert images or text into ASCII art automatically looks at best uninspired and boring and at worst like trash.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I think "by hand" implies making ascii art in a text editor, rather than in a dedicated drawing tool that lets you paint characters etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

That's exactly what I'm saying. Using pre-made characters looks cheap. Good enough for a 13-year-old’s geocities website, not good for something pretty.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

There was an app for MacOS...7? I think. It was called ASCIIPaint, and it allowed you to draw these pictures using a mouse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

.DIZ readmes, ftfy.