Here we go again. Copied from Post ANSI/ASCII Converter Tool Version 1.05.00 Release. Want even more? Checkout my entire collection of TheDraw ANSI & ASCII Fonts. Related Posts ATE ??? Ansi Text Editor 1.0Beta .TDF TheDraw Fonts File Tool TheDraw Fonts File (.TDF) Specifications … And More TheDraw ANSI & ASCII Fonts! TheDraw Fonts Collection Revamp and Extension New ANSI & ASCII Fonts for TheDraw CROSROAD.TDF.ZIP HYDROGEN.TDF.ZIP CLDCITY.TDF.ZIP TALENT.TDF.ZIP ARMAGDN.TDF.ZIP ARMAGDNR.TDF.ZIP NACHO.TDF.ZIP DROME.TDF.ZIP GANGLAND.TDF.ZIP IMGMNSET.TDF.ZIP EATME.TDF.ZIP CODE.TDF.ZIP BONER.TDF.ZIP SYNDROME.TDF.ZIP SALVATON.TDF.ZIP DUNGEON.TDF.ZIP DAMAGE.TDF.ZIP REMORSE.TDF.ZIP STURBO.TDF.ZIP DIMSSLIM.TDF.ZIP RUSTY.TDF.ZIP DIMSBOLD.TDF.ZIP ILLUSION.TDF.ZIP NEUROSIS.TDF.ZIP DUSTNBNS.TDF.ZIP PANTHEON.TDF.ZIP WELLFARE.TDF.ZIP DEVELOPM.TDF.ZIP HELTSKLT.TDF.ZIP IMPACT.TDF.ZIP RIVNDELL.TDF.ZIP ROYSAC2B.TDF.ZIP ROYSAC2G.TDF.ZIP ROYSAC2M.TDF.ZIP ROYSAC2P.TDF.ZIP ROYSAC2R.TDF.ZIP ARCHANA.TDF.ZIP COURIER.TDF.ZIP DESCENT.TDF.ZIP DESCENTS.TDF.ZIP DRAGON.TDF.ZIP PITTY.TDF.ZIP CHAOTIC.TDF.ZIP CYBERWAR.TDF.ZIP PHIBER2.TDF.ZIP PHIBER1.TDF.ZIP MASTER.TDF.ZIP UNDERWLD.TDF.ZIP CREATION.TDF.ZIP JUICE.TDF.ZIP SYNERGY.TDF.ZIP CYBRCRME.TDF.ZIP PERSUASN.TDF.ZIP STANDARD.TDF.ZIP PAGAN.TDF.ZIP BELFAST.TDF.ZIP TOWN.TDF.ZIP TOWNSML.TDF.ZIP DREADLK.TDF.ZIP NYNDEE.TDF.ZIP BBST.TDF.ZIP FINAL.TDF.ZIP GRNDZSML.TDF.ZIP ETERNAL.TDF.ZIP JUVENOCR.TDF.ZIP TRIBES.TDF.ZIP FIRE.TDF.ZIP DESTRUCT.TDF.ZIP DUNGEON2.TDF.ZIP CHANNEL.TDF.ZIP SHADOWLD.TDF.ZIP BODILY.TDF.ZIP CASINO.TDF.ZIP FB-OLDSD.TDF.ZIP INTERNAT.TDF.ZIP UNREAL.TDF.ZIP NGHTMARE.TDF.ZIP FB-REDSD.TDF.ZIP CALIFORN.TDF.ZIP APOVISON.TDF.ZIP FILE.TDF.ZIP RETRIBTN.TDF.ZIP SHADOWS.TDF.ZIP DEATHROW.TDF.ZIP EMPIRESM.TDF.ZIP MIDAS.TDF.ZIP NUCLEAR.TDF.ZIP MALICE.TDF.ZIP PRISONER.TDF.ZIP MONEY.TDF.ZIP CATTLE.TDF.ZIP ETHER.TDF.ZIP NRTHSTAR.TDF.ZIP TEAPOT.TDF.ZIP UNKNOWN.TDF.ZIP STAR2.TDF.ZIP BODYELEC.TDF.ZIP ELUSIVE.TDF.ZIP HOUSE1.TDF.ZIP HOUSE2.TDF.ZIP POWRGRID.TDF.ZIP SHDWLAND.TDF.ZIP CASTLE.TDF.ZIP HOUSTEK.TDF.ZIP LASTBBS.TDF.ZIP PALADIUM.TDF.ZIP PARIDOX.TDF.ZIP POISON.TDF.ZIP PSYCOSIS.TDF.ZIP SIDEPOCK.TDF.ZIP TERMITE.TDF.ZIP BITCHVRT.TDF.ZIP CHNLZERO.TDF.ZIP DARKNS2S.TDF.ZIP LIQUID.TDF.ZIP ALPHA.TDF.ZIP BOARD.TDF.ZIP DOORS.TDF.ZIP LAUGHTER.TDF.ZIP LEISURE.TDF.ZIP STATS.TDF.ZIP ADRKNESS.TDF.ZIP APPOCALY.TDF.ZIP CESSPOOL.TDF.ZIP EUPHORIA.TDF.ZIP HARDWRD2.TDF.ZIP HRDWIRED.TDF.ZIP INFINITE.TDF.ZIP RAGNAROK.TDF.ZIP REGENCY.TDF.ZIP REGULATR.TDF.ZIP SHALLOW.TDF.ZIP SYNDICAT.TDF.ZIP THIEVES.TDF.ZIP UNDRGRND.TDF.ZIP ATOM.TDF.ZIP CARTEL.TDF.ZIP DOWNFALL.TDF.ZIP KRYSTAL.TDF.ZIP NOVA.TDF.ZIP THESANCT.TDF.ZIP MAGICAST.TDF.ZIP ASTRONMY.TDF.ZIP CELERITY.TDF.ZIP DRKSOCTY.TDF.ZIP EXPLOSON.TDF.ZIP FALCONS.TDF.ZIP HELLPAY.TDF.ZIP HGSIERRA.TDF.ZIP MAPPERS.TDF.ZIP REVIEW.TDF.ZIP SUNRISE.TDF.ZIP THIEVSML.TDF.ZIP UTOPIAN.TDF.ZIP BADLANDS.TDF.ZIP COLORHRD.TDF.ZIP DARK.TDF.ZIP DESTINY2.TDF.ZIP DRKREALM.TDF.ZIP ELEUTHIA.TDF.ZIP ETERNITY.TDF.ZIP MORLDECY.TDF.ZIP NEGATIVE.TDF.ZIP NGTHSHDE.TDF.ZIP NMSWHQ.TDF.ZIP OPTICAL.TDF.ZIP WHIRWIND.TDF.ZIP GRAPHICS.TDF.ZIP GRNDZERO.TDF.ZIP REALITY.TDF.ZIP COUNT.TDF.ZIP MEMORY.TDF.ZIP BODYCNT.TDF.ZIP PALACE.TDF.ZIP Enjoy! Carsten aka Roy/SAC
I spend quite some time on my “FONTS COLLECTION” for the MS DOS ANSI/ASCII Text Editor “TheDraw“. The font file is in binary format and I wondered how it is structured to maybe write later some tools around it, like a Font Viewer for Windows, Converter to and from ANSI and stuff like that. Note that this is not an official specifications document, I reverse engineered it by testing, so there might be cases I am unaware of, although I am pretty confident that I covered everything about it. “TheDraw” Fonts Files have the extension “.TDF” (which is short for “TheDraw Font” duh :)). One .TDF Fonts file is by default designed as a “collection” of multiple fonts, even if it only holds a single font (like after exporting a single font to an extra file). It can hold up to 34 fonts. More are not possible, if used with TheDraw itself or with it’s external TDFONTS.EXE Fonts Editor utility. An empty fonts file without any font in it yet is always 232 bytes in size. The actual character data are always stored after those 232 bytes and can vary in size, depending on the size, type and complexity of the font characters. Every additional font added to the collection is 212 bytes long if without any character data. Font Header OffsetLengthDescriptionSample Value 0 1 Character 19 (13h) 13 1 18 Fix String TheDraw FONTS file 19 1 Character 26 (1Ah) 1A 20 4 Fix 4 Bytes Sequence Indicating the
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I am trying for a while now to create an all time Superior Art Creations member list. This is unfortunately no easy task, because the information in the SAC.NFO files of the SAC Pack releases were not always as well maintained as they should have been. I don???t want to point and blame anybody, but its is pretty tough to get a clear picture of who is who and who was in when as what, with the amount of information that can be extracted from the releases of the group itself. Here is what I came up with so for. The stuff that is high lighted with an orange background is where I would be happy, if anybody has an answer to my question or the missing information, whatever the case might be. Also, the whole last section with ???Non-Contributing Temp Members??? is open for input. Listed there are names that were mentioned that they are members of SAC, but I could not find any contribution of those guys in any of the SAC art packs. Maybe they did something under the name of SAC, but nothing that found its way into an art pack. If that is the case, then I want of course give the credits where credits are due and remove that person from the ???non-contributing??? section. If you know any of the folks where questions are still in the room or if you have any tip how or where I could find out more about them[…]
I wrote a while back already a post about the online Image to Text (ASCII) converter tool at Photo2Text.com. Back then I used Matt Cutts from Google as my Guinea-Pig to illustrate it???s capabilities. This is not the purpose of this blog post though. Shortly after I did my post, I played around with it a bit more. I experimented with a photograph of Jason Scott Sadofsky from Textfiles.com (who also did the DVD documentary ???BBS ??? The Documentary???, which I highly recommend, if you are interested in the subject of Bulletin Board Systems) I tweaked the source photo of him to get better results and saved them on my hard drive and then forgot about them until now. I stumbled across them by accident and thought that I should not hide them, or at least make them accessible for Jason himself. I took the results from the converter and tweaked them a bit more in Photoshop, adding some color and stuff like that. You can see below the stages of my changes. Click on the thumbnail images for the larger original sized version of it. Original 7-Bit ASCII as Image.?? Download the original text ASCII file Colors added Final picture with background added and name tag This is the final piece and I hope that Jason (and you too) will like it. I also created an ANSI version of the photograph with the tool. It is only using the number characters 0-9, but a very small font. The result[…]
Uh, third post in 2 days… that surprises even me. Hehe It was by coincidence actually, but somebody at Mahalo Answers made me aware of the feature of the free VLC (VideoLan) video player to convert video images to color ASCII art (some would call this ANSI hehe) in real-time. I thought that this is a cool feature, just by hearing about it. I downloaded the player and was unable to find the option for the ASCII art output, so I asked the guy at Mahalo Answers about it and luckily for me, he answered this question as well (a bit delayed, which made me drop the ball on it as well). The feature is buried deeply within the configuration options of the player and not that easy to find. To help you with this problem, see my step by step guide to enable the feature in the VideoLan player. Every step is illustrated with a screen shot, so that there should not be any excuses for why you could not set it up yourself properly. Start with getting the latest version of the VideoLan video player at VideoLan.org (note: the latest version does not have this feature anymore. See note at the end of the post for details). The player is available across platform, over a dozen different Linux and Unix distributions and versions. Binaries for Windows, Macintosh Mac OS X, BeOS and Syllable are also available by the way. It’s released under the GNU License. Step by Step[…]