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The program has only one difference to the normal version. It is using a fixed bitmap font instead of a Windows font. You didn't need to search for a ANSI emulation font and there will be no problems with the ratio aspect. The bitmap font is a 1:1 copy of the DOS font. There will be no wrong displayed characters like in 'Terminal'.

NFO Viewer should run on all major operating systems, but is primarily targeted for Unix-like systems (GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, etc).

This projects aims to create a NFO generator which will be able to create different kinds of nfo files with different artwork for the different needs of its users.

A simple viewer application for .nfo files on OS-X.

JavE is a free Ascii Editor. Rather than for editing texts, it is intended for drawing simple diagrams by using Ascii characters. It is like a graphics editor for editing texts instead of images.

PabloDraw is an Ansi/Ascii text and RIPscrip vector graphic art editor/viewer with multi-user capabilities.

A text viewer application that has been carefully designed around its main task: viewing and presenting NFO files. It comes with three different view modes (Rendered, Classic and Text Only), export functionality and lots of options! All Windows versions starting with Windows XP are supported. iNFekt works very well with Windows 7, 8 and is available in a native 64 bit version.

Apollo-X was a short-lived demo and warez scene website that focused on the art of intros and crack-tros. The site became popular long after it had been abandon due to its archived interviews with Bandido of Drink or Die and Marvel of the Future Crew. Bandido hit the headlines in 2007 after an arrest and extradition to the USA from his home of Australia for copyright infringement. While Marvel has since become a professional artist in the video-game industry working on titles such as Max Payne, Killzone and Medal of Honor.

What we loosely call the biweekly updating we do for the website. Every two weeks you will find new articles, index entries, contests, and announcements from groups. Other projects are updated at different times, see the site map for more info.

Browse through over 150 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. To start surfing the Wayback, type in the web address of a site or page where you would like to start, and press enter. Then select from the archived dates available. The resulting pages point to other archived pages at as close a date as possible.

The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

A significant collection of large sized ansi artworks, in browser friendly PNG image formats.

"BBS: The Documentary" is an 8 episode series about all aspects of the history of the dial-up Bulletin Board System, or BBS. 3 years in the making and the result of over 200 interviews, this collection puts in one convenient package a sense of the variety and wide-reaching effects of the BBS phenomenon. All in all, over seven and a half hours of material is included across the three region-free DVDs.

Legally download all 8 episodes and extras of BBS: The Documentary by Jason Scott. Available in multiple formats, DivX, Ogg Video 256Kb MPEG4, 512Kb MPEG4 and 64Kb MPEG4.

Pixel Art Logos for the most part from the Commodore Amiga and PC scene, but some Commodore 64 logos and a handful ANSI and ASCII logo also got mixed in. :).

Blocktronics is a international group of talented ansi artists that releases artpacks on a regular basis. The group was found in 2008 and aggregates artists from various countries.

This is a 35 minute Atari ST mixtape with classic Amiga / PC chip tunes. Everything is tracked and remix using an Atari ST in MaxYMizer and mixed together in a long session in STj.

Commodore 64 cracker intros in your browser.

This is the most complete collection of BBS adverts including PC and Amiga scene boards, legal as well as illegal ones. All the ads were found in release packages and are thereby authentical.

Since the first time that machines could calculate, people have twisted, modified, hacked and played with them to create art. In a fast-paced hour, we're going to do our best to capture 100 years of computer art, the magic of the art scene, the demo scene, and a dozen other "scenes" that have been with us as long as computers have. Prepare yourself for a roller coaster of visual and audio history as your two over-the top scene pilots take you on "the story so far" to the artscene.

You can find a huge collection of Win32 (Windows) flawless remakes of old-school Amiga cracktros and intros.

Replacementdocs.com pledges to bring you only high quality scanned images of instruction manuals in their full, original format with all original artwork and other graphical elements intact. There will be no text-only documentation unless that is how it was originally released. There will also be no conversion to monochrome images or any other severe quality degradation.

Some people have always had bad reputations on the scene. Some of them even spawn their own legion of haters. And in this case, Ice (of Origin/Myth fame) even had a website dedicated to him.

This was a web page created for Fairlight by our former Design Division. Unfortunately at the last moment the project was canned by the Fairlight leadership and it was never put into use.

Again a very bland front page that hosts various web sites dedicated to various different projects.

Now Defacto2 has split up into three groups. The front page is pretty ugly and is nothing more then a web host for the groups and various other pages.

This is an early version of our web site when we also operated a scene news service, a small scene archives and an art group.

The OldSkool DemoMaker creates demos like cracktros on the good old Amiga. Here a list what you can do with it: Horizontal and sinus scrolling text, bouncing copperbars, starfield in three modes, colorfull plasma effects, logo with old stylish deforming effect or as gif anim, 3d ball, dot & vector object view with rotation, replays music in different sound formats eg. SID and V2M, free use of display (window or fullscreen), export optimized standalone executables (no files needed), compressing executables will shrink size upto 90%, able to pack medias to use real large files. A lot of bitmap fonts and tracker modules included. O.S.D.M could be an ideal tool to put your own demos within archives to introduce yourself.

Roy's personal scene site which contains all the SAC packs, all of Roy's work as well as some excellent guides to scene art.

Discontinued - In the grand tradition of the pirate scene. We have a contemporary blog that takes the micky out of random quotes floating around the scene.

Online ANSI/ASCII gallery / museum.

Contains a massive collection of ascii and ansi packs from 1990 onwards. All the content of the packs can be viewed online after free registration.

The Titan Demo group is a respected art group who dabbles in all areas of the scene.

Discontinued. An demo off-shoot of the cracking group with the same name.

The Tristar group page, though don't expect to see much content in English.

The largest collection of art packs, emags, documents, and related files online. Includes the complete 'Acid: The Collection', 'The Ice Collection' as well as collections of packs dating back to 1992.

Formerly known a s NFOrce Entertainment, NFOHump is a scene, news and information website.

What this site offers is a glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the 128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) allowed them. The focus is on mid-1980's textfiles and the world as it was then, but even these files are sometime retooled 1960s and 1970s works, and offshoots of this culture exist to this day.

GameCopyWorld ONLY supplies Information and Tools necessary to make a PERSONAL BACKUP of legally owned Game CD's. GameCopyWorld cannot be held responsible if any of the information and/or files contained on this site is used in the pursuit of illegal activities such as copyright infringement or piracy.

Forum that formerly covered the pirate scene but these days is mostly above board.

Razor 1911, the legendary group that has been around since 1985.

ACiD Productions was originally founded in 1990 as ANSI Creators in Demand by five members: RaD Man, Shadow Demon, Grimm, The Beholder, and Phantom. Their work originally concentrated in ANSI and ASCII art, but the group later branched out into other artistic media such as music tracking, demo coding, and multimedia software development (e.g. image viewers). In the mid-1990s, ACiD created subsidiary groups responsible for these broader areas. For example, Remorse is the official ACiD sub-label responsible for ASCII art and other text-based graphics. Similarly, pHluid is responsible for module tracking and music production. Today, ACiD focuses largely on the preservation of digital art history, talk radio news, and sale of their DVD-based artscene archives.

iCE is not a pure forum for posting artwork, like other sites. iCE is an art group that has dedicated members (i.e. are not members of any other digital art group) who choose to release their art with us. Every month we gather the art that our members have drawn and package it up and put it on the web site. Making an account on ice.org does not make you an "iCE Member", although it does allow you have to an identity here. To go on to become an iCE Member you need to go through a formal application process and be accepted. It is very hard to get into iCE - we only accept the best out there.

Superior Art Creations, often referred to as SAC, is an underground artscene group which caters primarily to and is well known within the warez scene. During the mid to late nineties most of the notable ANSI artscene groups had distanced themselves from the warez scene, rather creating art for the sake of art, or for bulletin boards that were purely artscene related. Seizing this opportunity, SAC moved into this vacant territory and quickly became recognized as the leading group of warez scene artists. Towards the late 1990s, a good majority of NFO file ASCII art was created by various members of SAC. In 1999, lead ASCII artist Ferrex ascended into the role of senior staff and leader, continuing to control the group to this day.

The concept of "Oldskool" is pretty much the entire foundation for this website. Specifically: Oldskool is my flavor of "Old school", a term commonly given to something that, while old, was (and still is) innovative, fresh, proper, clever, and generally correct and the right way to do things. The old school begets the new school (anything new and modern), for you certainly can't get to anything new without going through the old. For example: Robotron is the old school, while Quake III is the new school; Sister Sledge is the old school, while En Vogue is the new school; and so on. Old school is, ultimately, a term of respect.