Today I'm trying to push the boundaries of what pixel art means by combining pixelated ASCII art (thanks to the excellent #jgs font by @adelfaure ), pixelated ink illustration and "hand drawn" glitch effects. 200 × 400 pixels, 2 colors. #cephalopod for #pixel_dailies #calamar #squid #ink #illustration #experimental #glitch #digitalart #mixedMedia #1bit #warmGrey #ASCIIart #textmode #pixelart #ドット絵 @pixel_dailies
The C64 BBS FriaBad offers the daily price per kilo of shrimp when you log out. It's worth calling that board just for that service!
#C64 #Commodore64 #BBS #RetroComputing #Textmode #8bit
#ShrimpPrices #OnlyOnBBS #LogOffBonus
So, my ANSI entry was shown on the big screen at @revisionparty. Better than nothing! 
#PunkySkunk got a raw deal as a video game hero on account of his game coming out at exactly the wrong time. But some folks out there still remember, and so I drew him looking rather dashing for a skunk in a jumpsuit with a pogo stick. I love how this one came out!
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When out of the armor, #Sparkster continues to stay in shape and ensure he can bear the weight of his responsibility for keeping Zebulos safe. This not only includes running and jumping, but hanging from trees and steel bars with his prehensile tail to free his arms to defend himself.
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At this point, #Sparkster is used to maintaining his own armor and jetpack. His wealth of experience has allowed him to do the same for his fellow knights and to train new knights and engineers in the art of keeping the Rocket Knights' equipment up to par.
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Zephyr
Custom font in the making once again. I thought I'll post this and regret later as the font will likely be totally different.
my #textmode font [ DUNGEON.mode ] is out now for free on @itchio !
https://datagoblin.itch.io/dungeonmode
it's a mash-up of tileset and typeface, inspired by old school roguelikes and dungeon crawlers - hope y'all like it!
Mistodon: originally drawn in #pixelart as part of @grymmjack 's "food gang" as seen a few days ago, this saucy character was redrawn in #ANSIart as interface art for the new IMBIBE01 food-themed electronic magazine. We then took things a step further and also used him in a promo for Chicago's #textmode art-loving @paperthinpizza , purveyors of delicious pies and terrible Figlet logos.
Mason Kirk (
) and Gale Fields (
) are among the forces defending cyberspace in the world of "Cyber Purge" (https://thegreenherring.itch.io/cyber-purge-zzt). Here they are ready to practice their martial arts and stay in shape in the physical world as well as the digital!
Back2Back UltraSyd in ~30 mins y'all!
Find the full schedule for @quantumradio here;
https://radio.erb.pw/public/subspace/schedule
It's not easy to fit a pleasant vista into precisely 256 text characters, but I did it for "A Pleasant Vista", my entry into the jam-packed Text Graphics Competition at @lovebyteparty 2025!
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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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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