Other ASCII. (new posts) http://www.ascii-world.com/forum/c-9934/other-ascii Posts in the forum category "Other ASCII." - If it wont fit boards above, it's place is here. http://www.ascii-world.com/forum/t-103637#post-309524 Low ASCII character symbols: Re: Low ASCII character symbols http://www.ascii-world.com/forum/t-103637/low-ascii-character-symbols#post-309524 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:17:39 +0000 Kevin Markwell 235177 Thank you very much for the information, i had not considered that they were mainly designed for games. It makes a lot of sense. i'm sure i will keep visiting this site because there are several areas i have not explored yet. Best wishes with the site.

]]> http://www.ascii-world.com/forum/t-103637#post-307699 Low ASCII character symbols: Re: Low ASCII character symbols http://www.ascii-world.com/forum/t-103637/low-ascii-character-symbols#post-307699 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:23:44 +0000 EKVirtanen 12785 Hi Kevin (and anonymous MystikShadows)

Thanks for your feedback about the site. To be honest, i havent worked much lately with this site since i am way overworked currently.
Site has existed pertty long, i think year 4 is goin on now. This is third "version" we have complited. First was pure html/frame site, made by MystikShadows. I think i do have copy of it in my secondary computer and i have planned to keep it online too someway.

Second site was build around TikiWiki software, but it was a bit mistake for us. Pretty quickly after moving to tikiwiki, we decided to move here where we are currently.

Hopefully this site can give you information as much as you need. If not, ask and we see if we could help.

E.K.Virtanen

p.s Mystik, yeah, youre old and your heart wont even survive flight over atlantic ocean :P

]]> http://www.ascii-world.com/forum/t-103637#post-307667 Low ASCII character symbols: Re: Low ASCII character symbols http://www.ascii-world.com/forum/t-103637/low-ascii-character-symbols#post-307667 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:21:59 +0000 Anonymous The charaacters themselves were designed because back then (in 11981) when ASCII came back to the PC world, there was no extended character set (128-255). Remember that back (prior to 1981) games were being made, and people started wanting some standard characters to make games out of, for example, the smiley face for classic rogue light games, the card suits symbols, the man and woman symbol and the other you can see in the 0-31 characters). The ASCI values of those symbols are one thing and were original designed to control output on the old computers that had continuous paper instead of a monitor for output. When the hardware fonts were stored in ROM somewhere, the addded 0 to 31 graphics to for the reasons above. and with the extended character set (128-255) well text graphics became what they have been since ASCII became the standard. :).

I wrote an article on the history of ASCII here for a little different point of view.
http://www.ascii-world.com/history

Hope this helped answer your question.

And E.K. One comment about my age here, and I'm going to Finland to kick your butt..LOL.

]]> http://www.ascii-world.com/forum/t-103637#post-304146 Low ASCII character symbols: Low ASCII character symbols http://www.ascii-world.com/forum/t-103637/low-ascii-character-symbols#post-304146 Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:01:43 +0000 Kevin Markwell 235177 i'm interested in the origins of the control character symbols 0 to 31 (decimal), for example in codepage 437. Wikipedia and other sites seem to say that the symbols were designed at Wang Computer. There is very little information about the graphics themselves. Does anyone know?

P.S. i've just found this site, and like it a lot.

]]> http://www.ascii-world.com/forum/t-65147#post-196952 Ascii/Ansi compo: Re: Ascii/Ansi compo http://www.ascii-world.com/forum/t-65147/ascii-ansi-compo#post-196952 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:39:02 +0000 Anonymous Neat one. Though i noticed this now since i was at holiday last two weeks.

E.K.Virtanen

]]> http://www.ascii-world.com/forum/t-65147#post-184960 Ascii/Ansi compo: Ascii/Ansi compo http://www.ascii-world.com/forum/t-65147/ascii-ansi-compo#post-184960 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:41:25 +0000 zefyros 139865 Please visit disassembly.tk and participate with your stuff.
There's a week time left: deadline on Saturday the 14th of June.
Two part ASCII-compo, freestyle ANSI and tracked Adlib music competitions.
So, if there's some activity on this site or in the ASCII-scene, now it's time to shine
If have any questions, please ask.
Cheers.

]]> http://www.ascii-world.com/forum/t-15999#post-40843 ASCIIArt Documents Archive: Re: ASCIIArt Documents Archive http://www.ascii-world.com/forum/t-15999/asciiart-documents-archive#post-40843 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:52:12 +0000 EKVirtanen 12785 There is This site is currently work in progress. status but i guess we should add this to our links too?

]]> http://www.ascii-world.com/forum/t-15999#post-40321 ASCIIArt Documents Archive: ASCIIArt Documents Archive http://www.ascii-world.com/forum/t-15999/asciiart-documents-archive#post-40321 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:48:34 +0000 Anonymous http://website.lineone.net/~martin.atkins/ada/

]]> http://www.ascii-world.com/forum/t-15998#post-40320 DrunkMen ASCII browser.: DrunkMen ASCII browser. http://www.ascii-world.com/forum/t-15998/drunkmen-ascii-browser#post-40320 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:47:57 +0000 Anonymous http://drunkmenworkhere.org/150.php

]]> http://www.ascii-world.com/forum/t-12272#post-30689 Keeping a Genre Alive: Keeping a Genre Alive http://www.ascii-world.com/forum/t-12272/keeping-a-genre-alive#post-30689 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:44:12 +0000 Anonymous http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113035964379680346-Sm_Xo6VCeinwEXHBnVDawW_8grI_20061115.html?mod=blogs

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