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ASCIIs that are NOT ASCIIs – or are they?

It wasn’t the first time that somebody said to me, that one of my “ASCIIs” is labeled wrong as such and should be labeled “ANSI”.He was referring to what is also called a “Block ASCII”. He is right and wrong with his comment and I will try to explain that. The Extended IBM Code Pages […]


My Art Galleries Launched – Over 700 pieces of Text Art

I came across a nice php script called AnsiLove last week. The Script converts original ANSI and ASCII files to an Image in real-time. The characters are rendered correctly and the DOS Ansi colors are correct as well. The Font used is true to the original MS DOS font. I was delighted. The Script is […]

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Roy/SAC Blog Redesigned – Tribute to Text Art

Anybody who is an active blogger could recognize the default blogger template layout which I used for my Roy/SAC Blog when I launched it at the beginning of February. I did some changes to it to have it at least look a bit different, but that was not enough, the basic design of the blogger […]

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31 Pieces of Art added to my deviantART Page

I spent several hours today on my home page at deviantART. I added 31 ASCII’s, ANSI’s and VGA’s from my personal “best of” collection. It wasn’t the upload of the art that took so much of my time. What took the time was writing comments for every single uploaded piece of my art. Some Comments […]


How things happen such as this Blog

It is sometimes funny how things happen in life and take unexpected turns, trigger a chain reaction you did not expect to happen when you started something for a complete different reason. Exactly this happened when I did the redesign of my families Homepage Cumbrowski.com between Christmas and New Year. It was only a single […]

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