Sender: Eric Scharff Message-ID: <3caf9c34@cs.colorado.edu> From: Eric Scharff Subject: PETSCII Art Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm,alt.ascii-art User-Agent: tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (Darwin/5.3 (Power Macintosh)) NNTP-Posting-Host: timbre.cs.colorado.edu Date: 6 Apr 2002 18:09:08 -0700 X-Trace: cs.colorado.edu!csnews 1018141748 timbre.cs.colorado.edu (6 Apr 2002 18:09:08 -0700) Lines: 18 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.mailgate.org!enews.sgi.com!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!denver-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!coop.net!cs.colorado.edu!csnews!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:29544 Many years ago, I ran across a large collection of "PETSCII" art on the QuantumLink online service. For those of you in alt.ascii-art, the Commodore 64 computer's standard character set included graphics symbols. PETSCII art was composed from these symbols as well as the multiple colors supported by the machine. Many BBSs had PETSCII splash screens. There was a lot of really good stuff out there. I also have vague memories of a program that was a combination editor and screen-based graphics viewer. Is there an archive of PETSCII art out there somewhere? Would anyone be interested in a Web gallery? Thanks in advance to the PETSCII artists out there, -Eric (Genuine email replies, replace e.d.s_2 with eds_2) ###### Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art From: Faux_Pseudo Subject: Re: PETSCII Art References: <3caf9c34@cs.colorado.edu> Reply-To: Faux_Pseudo@yahoo.comERCIAL Message-ID: User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Lines: 33 Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 03:04:56 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.8.9.87 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.west.cox.net 1018148696 68.8.9.87 (Sat, 06 Apr 2002 22:04:56 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 22:04:56 EST Organization: Cox Communications Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!feedme.news.mediaways.net!fu-berlin.de!news-xfer.newsread.com!netaxs.com!newsread.com!nntp.abs.net!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!cox.net!news2.west.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:29542 --(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)-- --(Eric Scharff said it like only they can.)-- > Many years ago, I ran across a large collection of "PETSCII" art on > the QuantumLink online service. > > For those of you in alt.ascii-art, the Commodore 64 computer's standard > character set included graphics symbols. PETSCII art was composed from > these symbols as well as the multiple colors supported by the machine. > > Many BBSs had PETSCII splash screens. There was a lot of really good > stuff out there. I also have vague memories of a program that was > a combination editor and screen-based graphics viewer. > > Is there an archive of PETSCII art out there somewhere? Would anyone > be interested in a Web gallery? > > Thanks in advance to the PETSCII artists out there, > > -Eric > (Genuine email replies, replace e.d.s_2 with eds_2) Please dont crosspost. Try doing a search on google.com a quick search for petscii emulator turned up over 100 matchs so you may find what you are looking for -- +-(faux@fugozi)-(0.05|0.08|0.08)-(19:03|Sat Apr 06)-+ cat ~/.{sig,uin} It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. - Andrew Jackson UIN=66618055 ###### Message-ID: <3CAFD19F.8BE22512@bigvalley.net> Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 20:57:13 -0800 From: Larry Anderson Reply-To: foxnhare@bigvalley.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm,alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: PETSCII Art References: <3caf9c34@cs.colorado.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 45 X-Abuse-Report: Send abuse reports to abuse@teranews.com Organization: http://www.TeraNews.com - FREE NNTP Access Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator2-maxim!propagator-maxim!news-in.spamkiller.net!telocity-west!TELOCITY!hub1.meganetnews.com!hub1.nntpserver.com!news.teranews.com Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:29547 Eric Scharff wrote: > > Many years ago, I ran across a large collection of "PETSCII" art on > the QuantumLink online service. > > For those of you in alt.ascii-art, the Commodore 64 computer's standard > character set included graphics symbols. PETSCII art was composed from > these symbols as well as the multiple colors supported by the machine. > > Many BBSs had PETSCII splash screens. There was a lot of really good > stuff out there. I also have vague memories of a program that was > a combination editor and screen-based graphics viewer. Yep, Commodore BBSs really ran with the Commodore C/G art idea, many of them had C/G 'movie' players (with supporting C/G terminals) The Commodore set also had cursor positioning controls in the PETASCII set (move, cursor up, etc) so you could make crude animation. (IBM did too if you had the ANSI library loaded, it was done through some longer escape sequences) There was a few great Commodore C/G artists, (Omega ...something...) I dunno if there is any on textfiles.com (most of thier graphics stuff is IBM ANSI C/G) There's a couple disks full in the Commie Kazez BBS Archive CD... There is a web gallery or two of q-link entry screens (search for qlink or "quantum link", you probably will find them) > Is there an archive of PETSCII art out there somewhere? Would anyone > be interested in a Web gallery? > > Thanks in advance to the PETSCII artists out there, > > -Eric > (Genuine email replies, replace e.d.s_2 with eds_2) -- 01000011 01001111 01001101 01001101 01001111 01000100 01001111 01010010 01000101 Larry Anderson - Sysop of Silicon Realms BBS (209) 754-1363 300-14.4k bps Set your 8-bit C= rigs to sail for http://www.portcommodore.com/ 01000011 01001111 01001101 01010000 01010101 01010100 01000101 01010010 01010011 ###### From: Todd Elliott Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm,alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: PETSCII Art Date: 7 Apr 2002 07:10:00 GMT Organization: VideoCam Services WEB(http://vcsweb.com/) Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <3caf9c34@cs.colorado.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: vcsweb.com X-Trace: vcsweb.com 1018163400 30530 203.38.186.193 (7 Apr 2002 07:10:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: admin@vcsweb.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Apr 2002 07:10:00 GMT User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.2-rg1 (i686)) Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.mailgate.org!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!intgwpad.nntp.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!vicpull2.telstra.net!news.vcsweb.com!news!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:29543 Eric Scharff wrote: > Is there an archive of PETSCII art out there somewhere? Would anyone > be interested in a Web gallery? > There's one archive done by the hitmen demo crew. Their site is www.hitmen-console.org and the direct link to their lo-res (C/G Graphics) is at: http://hitmen.c02.at/hitc64/h_toe.htm Yes, I would be interested in a web gallery of BBS and other C/G graphic screens. Enjoy. -- Todd Elliott ###### From: "Marc Walters" Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm,alt.ascii-art References: <3caf9c34@cs.colorado.edu> Subject: Re: PETSCII Art Lines: 15 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 13:22:56 +1000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.12.146.156 X-Complaints-To: news@pacific.net.au X-Trace: nasal.pacific.net.au 1018322064 203.12.146.156 (Tue, 09 Apr 2002 13:14:24 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 13:14:24 EST Organization: Pacific Internet (Australia) Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator2-maxim!propagator-maxim!news-in.spamkiller.net!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!newsfeed.zip.com.au!nasal.pacific.net.au!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:29610 "Eric Scharff" wrote in message news:3caf9c34@cs.colorado.edu... [snip] > For those of you in alt.ascii-art, the Commodore 64 computer's standard > character set included graphics symbols. PETSCII art was composed from > these symbols as well as the multiple colors supported by the machine. [snip] The old British online service Compunet had many excellent colour PETAscii graphic screens in its galleries. It might be worth searching for archives. Marc