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#ansiart

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Here's an experiment done in response to recent news in the art world. Image 1 is what I scribbled right before work yesterday morning. Image 2 is what those simple shapes turned into after I came home and reopened my art app. This is proof that all you need to create strange worlds is your imagination, something genAI and its proponents can never possess or understand.

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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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#atarist#atari#ansi

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