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by prometheus76 329 days ago
TheDraw was a cornerstone of my teenage years. I would log into different BBSs just to see their ANSI welcome screens, then I would try and re-create them to learn the art. It was a unique form of animation and I was hoping you had figured out how to get TheDraw working.

I also later used ANSI to make my own cool command line prompts in DOS and later, Linux.

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Recreate them? we would steal the stream, save it, run it through a hex editor, while watching it draw in a separate window. It got to be just a work of wonder what people came up with, and then my friend got an Amiga, and those splash screens... omg...