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Re:Amiga ASCII Art by 01100011 on Sunday October 22, 2023 @04:40PM (#37978888)
Does anyone remember the name of the 1-bit, bitmapped art you could get in the Amiga terminal? I seemed to remember you would just cat a text file and graphics would appear.
Re:Amiga ASCII Art by xmm on Sunday October 22, 2023 @05:02PM (#37979065)
Yes. The Amiga text terminal allowed you to shift the top and left margin by single pixels using escape codes. After shifting, writing new text would not overwrite pixels outside the character cell, so by writing a line of text, and then shifting the margin down one pixel, writing another line of text, etc. you could get a complete bitmap image displayed.
Re:Amiga ASCII Art by 01100011 on Sunday October 22, 2023 @06:50PM (#37979782)
Thank you! I wish I knew what the technique was called. I'd love to see some old screenshots.