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To correctly view the collections of ASCII/ANSI Art stored here you must install a proper viewer. The easiest/best/cheapest program is ACiD View for Windows that you can download below.
If you still want to surf ASCII-Art with a web browser consider the use of Mozilla Firefox because it handles ASCII-Art far better than Microsoft Internet Explorer. You can download Firefox clicking on the orange button on the bottom of this page.
What this site is about:
Information about ASCII/ANSI/Warez Art Scene
Repository and Search Engine for ASCII/ANSI/Warez art
ASCII/ANSI Viewer Software (freeware)
ACiD View v6.1 for Windows - Multiformat Image Viewer
Description: The first Windows-based viewer for the artscene.
This highly innovative program is capable of displaying ANSI, ASCII, ADF, BIN, GIF, JPEG, PNG & XBIN with additional supported formats underway.
Features include modem emulator to simulate the feel of viewing text across a dial-up connection, 80x25 & 80x50 aspect ratios, "VGA-mode" down scaling of ANSI text and much more!
ASCII/ANSI Art Collections
ASCII Art Search Engine 1.00
You can retrieve the original sources of the indexed documents using the URLs listed in the "Art Sources & Useful Links" above.
Ascii Art Essential Wikipedia Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii_art ASCII Art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansi_art ANSI Art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FILE_ID.DIZ FILE_ID.DIZ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.nfo .NFO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_art_scene Computer Art Scene
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene Demoscene
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system Bulletin board system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez Warez
Ascii Art Sources & Useful Links:
http://www.ascii-art.de (Ascii Art Dictionary by Andreas Freise)
http://www.chris.com/ascii (Christopher Johnson's ASCII Art Collection)
http://www.geocities.com/joan_stark (Joan Stark's Ascii Art Gallery)
http://www.acid.org/ (ACiD Artpacks)
http://www.cumbrowski.com/RoySAC/ (Official Homepage of Roy/SAC)
ftp://ftp.scene.org/mirros/artpacks (Artpacks Mirror by scene.org)