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    From Richard Bagshaw to All on Sat Jul 12 11:17:33 2025
    Just set my BBS up, loving it, but man, I wish I could do ANSI art and make it look "mine" - I am technical but one thing I am not is creative :(

    bagwaa
  • From Nightfox@1:103/705 to Richard Bagshaw on Sat Jul 12 11:53:19 2025
    Re: ANSI art
    By: Richard Bagshaw to All on Sat Jul 12 2025 11:17 am

    Just set my BBS up, loving it, but man, I wish I could do ANSI art and make it look "mine" - I am technical but one thing I am not is creative :(

    I've always been the same way, more technical than creative.. I've often done things like basic ANSI menu screens, but always felt like I didn't have the creative side to do ANSI art.

    Nightfox

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  • From Richard Bagshaw to Nightfox on Sat Jul 12 21:34:54 2025
    Re: ANSI art
    By: Nightfox to Richard Bagshaw on Sat Jul 12 2025 11:53:19

    I've always been the same way, more technical than creative.. I've often done things like basic ANSI menu screens, but always felt like I didn't have the creative side to do ANSI art.

    I feel like it's more of a "gift" than something you can just learn.
  • From phigan@1:103/705 to Richard Bagshaw on Sun Jul 13 03:23:50 2025
    Re: ANSI art
    By: Richard Bagshaw to All on Sat Jul 12 2025 11:17 am

    look "mine" - I am technical but one
    thing I am not is creative :(

    In the same boat, here. But you know,
    you'd be surprised what you can do when
    you just open up an editor, put in all
    the main menu commands, a box here, a
    line there, and bam.. custom main menu.
    Maybe another line...

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  • From Bagwaa@1:103/705 to phigan on Sun Jul 13 14:11:37 2025
    Re: ANSI art
    By: phigan to Richard Bagshaw on Sun Jul 13 2025 03:23:50

    In the same boat, here. But you know,
    you'd be surprised what you can do when
    you just open up an editor, put in all
    the main menu commands, a box here, a
    line there, and bam.. custom main menu.
    Maybe another line...

    haha, yeah, I did think about just doing that, not even sure what the decent editors are, I looked at something called "durdraw" which looks kinda neat.

    One thing I did wonder is if I could somehow finagle AI todo all the heavy listing for me, but it seems to only want to create ASCII art and it's VERY basic even by my standards lmao.

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  • From MRO@1:103/705 to Bagwaa on Sun Jul 13 23:00:22 2025
    Re: ANSI art
    By: Bagwaa to phigan on Sun Jul 13 2025 02:11 pm

    haha, yeah, I did think about just doing that, not even sure what
    the decent editors are, I looked at something called "durdraw"
    which looks kinda neat.

    you could always use old ansi packs to take tidbits or get inspiration.
    you could convert bmp gif etc to ansi with some editors.
    you can use figlet to generate menus.


    One thing I did wonder is if I could somehow finagle AI todo all the
    heavy listing for me, but it seems to only want to create ASCII
    art and it's VERY basic even by my standards lmao.

    i doubt it.
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  • From nelgin@1:103/705 to Richard Bagshaw on Sun Jul 20 17:08:16 2025
    Re: ANSI art
    By: Richard Bagshaw to All on Sat Jul 12 2025 11:17:33

    Just set my BBS up, loving it, but man, I wish I could do ANSI art and make it look "mine" - I am technical but one thing I am not is creative :(

    I feel your pain. I am complete void of any creativeness when it comes to graphics. I leave it to the experts. My BBS menus are just simple lines and stuff I saw somewhere else and made similar. I can't even make stuff I steal look good lol.

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