You don't have to look here for links to sites where you can download tools to edit ANSIs or ASCII art. I have the most important tools available right here on my site. Check the download section for the list of tools that are available for download.
What you can find here though are references to other online archives related to BBS, text art, demoscene etc. , other resources sites, official demoparty sites, homepages of other art groups, links to sites of ex-SAC members, online tools, forums and much more. You can also find HTML code that you can take and implement into your own website to link to RoySAC.com or SuperiorArtCreations.com via a nice and colorful 468x60 pixels banner ad. Cheers!
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| Scene.org |
Scene.org is a non-profit organization aimed at providing the 'electronic art scene' with a forum for communication and for sharing their work. FTP Access to Gigabytes of Demos, Intros, Ansi Art, Ascii Art, VGA Art and more.
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| TextFiles.com |
online archive by Jason Scott with several subdomains has a huge collection of art pack, emags, cracktros, bbs logs, bbs lists, ASCII files, text files and a lot more. Often well sorted.
Textfiles.com subdomains and spin off sites:
Jason Scott from TextFiles.com has the whole content of the Dark Domain DVD (by RaD Man/ACiD) and more online. You can browse the whole artpacks archive here. Most of the packs can be browsed and watched online via web browser at SixteenColors.net.
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| Defacto2.net |
Defacto2 by Ben Garrett is a web site that is dedicated to the preservation of the computer underground counterculture, with a focus on the PC cracking scene.
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| Pouet.net |
Information repository for scene releases, groups and BBS repository and networking site. Maintained by sceners for sceners.
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| Sixteen Colors Archive |
Comprehensive online Archive of Scene Art Packs from 1990 until today with the ability to view them in your Browser (yes, the ANSI's and ASCII's). Login/Registration is required.
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| Amiga Music Preservation Project |
AMP or the Amiga Music Preservation project at AmP.DASCENE.NET has a huge collection of scene music in its original MOD (MODULE) format and information about individual musicians of the scene, such as their group memberships, alternative handles and for many of them also pictures and interviews. The name of the project is a bit misleading, they do also preserve modules from PC trackers like Fasttracker, Screamtracker, Digitracker and X-tracker and not only modules in Amiga Soundtracker and Protracker format.
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| Text Mode Demo Archive |
The text mode demo archive exists as a depository for demos that run in plain text mode.
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| ASCII Cartel |
is an oldskool Amiga ASCII art style online archive with collections from various ASCII artists from around the world. It is currently hosted at Sapphire.no.
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| The BBS Archive |
BBS Software and tools available for download in a huge BBS Software archive at Archive.theBBS.org, including over 1,000 PPE's for the PCBoard BBS System by Clark Development.
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| Flashtros.com |
Hundreds of (mostly Amiga) cracktros recreated in Macromedia Flash. Access to most flash versions of the Cracktros requires unfortunately an active Flashtro.com account, which is free, but not instantly activated after sign-up.
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| Defacto2 Cracktro Videos |
Large number of PC Cracktro videos at the YouTube.com account of Ben Garrett, who runs the scene archive at Defacto2.net.
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| SAC Releases on YouTube |
This is my YouTube account where I upload SACtros and SAC crack intros, which I captured and/or improved based on existing captures by Hetero and other sources. The videos will become available directly from this website eventually, but until then, check out "sacreleases" at YouTube.
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| Hetero/SAC^Razor1911 Cracktro Videos |
Hetero's online archive of his cracktros in video format at his LKCC YouTube.com account. He also has a few cracktros by other codes available as video.
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| Assembly Demo Party |
Official Homepage of the Assembly Demo Party held annually during summer in Finland. Since 1992.
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| The Gathering Demo Party |
Official Homepage of the The Gathering Demo Party held annually during spring in Norway. Since 1992.
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| Breakpoint Demo Party |
Official Homepage of the The Breakpoint Demoparty held annualy in Bingen, Germany since 2003. Breakpoint developed out of the Mekka & Symposium demo party, which was held in previous years in Fallingbostel, Germany.
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Great Demoparties from the past that were discontinued: The Party held between 1991-2002 between Christmas and New Year in Herning and Aars, Denmark; Mekka & Symposium held between 1996 - 2002 in Fallingbostel, Germany. More a list of Demoparties see this article at Wikipedia.
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| Bitfellas.org |
Bitfellas.org - Demoscene news and updates. Also available a demoscene radio that plays old mod files and sountracks from demos and intros.
The scene news site Diskmag.de and its tons of scene related articles and interviews was merged with Bitfellas in 2007.
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| PC Demo Fanclub |
PC Demo Fanclub by Jeremy Williams. Upcoming V5 (expected in 2008) will be available at jerware.org/fanclub/
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| Nectarine Net-Radio |
Nectarine is a net-radio (http://www.scenemusic.net), broadcasting over 14000 modules all free done between 80's and now. 3 sTReams (128kbps,56kbps,24kbps) more than 500 access and some relay worldwide. Join us and put your hands into demoscene circle.
Ojuice.net, the Orange Juice Portal is now redirected to Nectarine Net Radio and Forum. Ojuice was the first demoscene-related portal. Its goal is to be an exhaustive information center about all the activities related to the demoscene.
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| Demoscene.tv |
Oldskool and current Demo's Video Streaming.
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| NForce.nl |
Shows the lastest scene releases, what, who and when; PC software, Game Consols, Video. A RSS feed is also available.
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| Dmoz Ascii Links |
Ascii Art Links at the ODP - Open Directory Project Website Dmoz.org.
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| ASCII Arts Directory |
List of ASCII art related sites, mostly individual ASCII artists.
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| Computer Art Scene History |
An Abbreviated History of the Underground Computer Art Scene by Napalm, 11/10/1998, The History of Art and Technology.
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 100 YEARS OF THE COMPUTER ART SCENE |
Presented by Jason Scott and RaD Man (ACiD), Notacon Conference - Cleveland, Ohio, USA, April 23-25th, 2004
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 Online Software Piracy of the Last Millennium |
PDF - History of the Scene : The beginnings of the IBM-PC Underground. Written by Ben Garrett aka Ipggi (operator of Defacto2.net).
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| History of the Scene |
The beginnings of the IBM-PC Underground by Ippgi - 4/20/1999
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| Introduction to the Demoscene |
original written by Adok/Hugi for the Hugi eMag at www.hugi.scene.org, which does not exist anymore. The link goes to a preserved copy (snapshot) of the original page. The navigation links to pages that don't exist.
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| PC Demoscene FAQ |
PC Demoscene FAQ, an introduction to the PC demoscene, written by Thomas Gruetzmacher (aka Tomaes)
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| The Shadow Internet |
four page article about "the scene" by Jeff Howe for Wired Magazine. Published in January 2005 in Wired Magazine Issue 13.01.
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| Scene |
Article by Wildcat/ACiD that explains what the underground artscene is and introduces the various types of art that were created by members of that artscene.
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| Ascii-Art.de |
Ascii Art Dictionary created by Andreas Freise
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| Demoscene Acronynoms |
Demoscene Acronynoms, abbreviations of Demogroup names across all platforms - by Scenet (last updated 2002)
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| AboutTheScene.com |
About The Scene is an attempt to explain to outsiders what the "scene" actually is and how it works. It uses various sources as reference for its content and was created by an anonymous scener. Warning: The site triggers annoying pop-up ads.
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| the scenery project |
guide to groups, parties and releases on the c64/amiga demoscene (pc is in development)
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The Hacker Demo scene and
it's cultural artifacts |
by George Borzyskowski, School of Design, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia. The paper reports on a study undertaken into vernacular forms of multimedia production referred to as "demos" or "intros" and variants of these terms among adherents of a computer oriented subculture identifying itself as "the scene".
Published at OJuice, the Article.
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| The Hacker Crackdown |
Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling
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| ASCII art |
article at Wikipedia about ASCII art
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| ANSI art |
article at Wikipedia about ANSI art and the computer text art scene.
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| Acheron.org |
Acheron ANSI, ASCII and RIP art forums and portal at Acheron.org was discontinued in 2004 and is now part of the Sixteencolors.net site, specificallly the Sixteencolors.net Wiki.
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| Boondocks! |
Boondocks Amiga ASCII Scene Forum at ASCIIScene.org
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| Thuglife |
PC ASCII Scene Board and Forums at Thuglife.org. Also covers PC Demoscene topics.
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| Hacker's Wisdom |
Collection of Links to Articles and Books about Hackers, Hacking and Hacker Code, compiled by luis fernandes.
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| Demoscene Homepages |
Demoscene Homepages, grouped by platforms, people, groups, parties etc. - provided by Scenet (last updated 2002)
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| 4Sceners |
German demoscene site, news, party releases, demos, intros, pixel art images, videos for non-Windows 32 PC productions on machines like the Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, Amiga PPC, MS Dos, Dreamcast, Gameboy Advanced, Play Station 2, Xbox, Wild and some Windows Demos. Artist and Groups references.
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| ASCIImator |
at ASCIImater.net is a funny online tool to create simple ASCII animations (ASCIImations) with community site attached to it to publish and share your creations as registered user or guest. I created this little fun animation as a guest hehe.
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| Photo2Text.com |
is a nice and easy to use image to ASCII converter with a number of converter options, such as specification of the character set used and a cool feature that lets you adjust the "brightness" of the ASCII result. I wrote a blog post to this image to ASCII converter at my blog where I also show some examples of how the results actually look like.
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| Unicode Charcter Reference |
at FileFormat.info lists all Unicode Characters in an A to Z Index. It provides for each charcter tons of information in the details from the name over encoding and JAVA data to Microsoft .NET properties.
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>> Official SAC Homepage (currently under construction, sorry)
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| Hetero |
Homepage of Hetero. 2nd Founder of SAC. LKCC and Razor1911 Member. alternative url (seems to be older).
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| Rainer |
Homepage of Rainer/ex-SAC. MOD Musician (S3M, XM).
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| Asphyx |
deviantART Homepage of Asphyx.
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| Dipswitch |
Dipswitch/SAC Homepage at Underground.net
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| Grymmjack |
evolv3 the Homepage of Grymmjack.
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| Webpige0 |
Homepage of Webpig0 aka w0 at Kung-Fu.nu.
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Link to SuperiorArtCreations.com or RoySAC.com! Grab the code below, which will render the code as you can see above. Thanks.
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