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Well, we are currently so nicely in the mood of “complete” and “all”, why not add something else “complete” to it. I hope at least that it is complete. I made some remarks already during a previous post where I also highlighted the Dytec remix video, which should have given you some clues about what […]

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Some quick, but exciting news. I introduced last summer my 30 Years of Naked ASCII Art gallery with 30 astonishing examples of text art that depict female nudity as motive for the pieces. I expanded the gallery significantely today. I added a whopping 70!!! additional pieces. The gallery is 100 pictures big, or 200, if […]

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Boy, the demoscene came a long way since their humble beginnings in the early 1980s on archaic computers like the Apple II, Atari 800 and especially the Commodore 64 and later the Commodore Amiga 500. If you want to learn more about the old days and stuff like that, check out my post about the […]

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I stumbled across the video recording of “The Complete History of the Demoscene“, a presentation by Tamas Polgar, Author of Freax and member of the Hungarian demo group Madwizards, at the Assembly 2005 Demo party in Helsinki, Finland. Back to ASCII Art Academy His book was published in 2005 (it’s available at the merchandising section […]

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People often confuse ASCII animation or ASCIImation with ANSI Animation or ANSImation and believe them to be the same. This is actually wrong. ASCIImations are created by using programming (code) to move text characters around in a way that makes it apear like an animation or movement. Even text-mode demos that show text characters with […]