Re: ASCII versions - for animation

[niallt@dai.ed.ac.uk (Niall Tracey)]

Niall Tracey (niallt@dai.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
: I'm looking for information on the ASCII codes/screen codes for the
: various 8bit computers, preferably with pictures of the resulting
: displayed graphics. Details of screen modes (colours and dimensions)
: would be very helpful also.

Someone sent me this:
   "Some telecommunications software that runs on 8-bit Apples
    will `handle' ANSI-codes (the ASCII screen codes you're
    refering to); but do so poorly, at best (ie: can show Inverse
    for bold, blinking, inverse) and cannot handle colour at all."

Let me clarify this. I don't necessarily mean ASCII; I mean whatever
character sets exist for each system. I wish to find which common
characters (or at least like characters) exist across the various
systems and create a standard format for character pictures.

Additionally, when I say colour, I mean anything at all. Colour will
be non-essential in the final product; simply an enhancement where
resources permit.

He also wrote:
   "PS: I'd humbly suggest that 70-75 characters wide should be
        a reasonable cross-platform standard width for displaying
        ASCII TXT (on any system capable of displaying 80x25
        character-sets)."

Probably not. Several versions will exist for people to chose between,
but the vast majority of 8 bit computers have 40 column displays, so
that would have to be the basis for a standard.

And as I said, it's not strictly ASCII I'm after - it's any character
sets for any systems.

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