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FABS - Flexible ASCII Banner Software - http://www.angelfire.com/il/fabs/
FABS is a program for making banners, except it uses ASCII characters for the fonts. Sort of like Figlet program turned sideways. |
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Artist Mode for Emacs - http://www.lysator.liu.se/~tab/artist/
Artist is an Emacs lisp package that allows you to draw lines, rectangles, squares, poly-lines, ellipses and circles by using your mouse and/ or keyboard. |
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Alan's IOCCC Entry - http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/ioccc/
Spin 3D shapes into ASCII art. |
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Characterizer - http://www.aolej.com/free.html#Chara
Freeware "One form" application for converting images to ASCII text (ASCII art). |
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ASCII Generator dotNET - http://ascgen2.sourceforge.net/
Open-source image to text converter, with support for variable width fonts. |
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Alternate's ASCII Artist - http://alterlife.org/asciiartist/
A tiny Windows program which can convert Windows bitmaps into ASCII art. Very minimal interface. Full Win32 SDK C++ Source code is Included (Open-Source under the zlib/libpng license). |
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Tribute to Text Mode Games - http://www.textmodegames.com/
Virtual museum for games using only 16 colors and the 255 symbols in the IBM-extended ASCII character set. Download, play, and admire these gems from a simpler time in computing. |
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Asciifier - http://www.chaucery.com/fun/asciifier/
Convert an image, or all the images within a web page, into a pixel-perfect copy made only of text. |
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Asciimator - http://www.asciimator.net
A web application which allows everybody to create ASCII animations, publish them and insert into their own web pages. |
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Magic ASCII Studio - http://www.xoyosoft.com/mas
An ASCII art generation platform. You can make ASCII art words, photos and animations. Take an image and process it to an HTML, RTF or BMP file. |
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ASCII Jam - http://artcontext.net/act/01/asciiJam/
A free online ASCII graphics editor with private and groupware modes. Create color and traditional ASCII pictures and export to PDF and HTML formats. Java enabled browser required. |
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Pablo Tools - http://pablo.etoxn.ca/
Offers Pabloview, an NFO viewer and Pablodraw, a multi-user ANSI editor. Both support ANSI characters and are designed for Windows. Pablodraw is also open source, and an older version is available for DOS. |
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TextDraw and Imagetrix - http://www.pixio.biz/
TextDraw is a full-color ASCII art editor. Imagetrix converts images to text. Choose from several image effects to alter the conversion. Save the converted text as HTML, RTF, JPG, BMP, TXT or TDF (TextDraw Document Format). |
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ToolPanel.org ASCII Generator - http://www.toolpanel.org/imagestuff/asciigenerator/
A web-based software which generates ASCII images of png, jpg and gif images. |
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Bmp2Ansi - http://home.student.utwente.nl/j.oortwijn/products/software/bmp2ansi/index.html
A freeware bmp to ANSI converter. This program is useful when you want to create a logo for nfo-files. |
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IMG2ASCII - http://sourceforge.net/projects/img2ascii/
A PHP program, that generates ASCII images from JPG, GIF or PNG images. There are several options to alter the generated output, such as color, inversed color, font sizes, background color, line height or letter spacing. |
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http://www.geocities.com/icotext/ - http://www.geocities.com/icotext/
Convert a icon To text art. |
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ASCII Editor Beta - http://studenten.freepage.de/meph/ascii/ascii.htm
Software to make and colour ASCII art. ASCII Editor 4.1 Beta, BMP2ASCII converter, ANSI viewer. |
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http://www.5star-network.com/Windows/Internet/Email/sigzag.html - http://www.5star-network.com/Windows/Internet/Email/sigzag.html
Freeware to create personalized signatures. Includes a library of ASCII art pictures. Use figlet fonts, and taglines. Convert normal text into the multi-line representation of the characters. |
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Image2Ascii Competition 2001 - http://www.jave.de/image2ascii/competition2001/index.html
From a discussion in alt.ascii-art. The intention is to compare different image2ascii converters and also to see how ASCII artists do that kind of conversion by hand. |