Incredibly old ANSI art found, assembler proved older than Jesus.

[ASSEMbler]

http://www.assemblergames.com/images/news/ANSI2.GIF


Anyone who has a CLUE as to:

Where this is from?
Knows the original name for the ASSEMbler site?
Can find it's STILL ACTIVE homepage

Will wins a special prize. (Not you CJPC as I showed you the bloody site already! :-) )

Btw I actually did that ansi art years ago :-)

[id-republix]

No Idea, but I did find this, haha :

"AD098-133 Kevin‚³‚ñ�k�‰�E23�Î�l�@ranmaddict@nettrip.net
[1]PCƒGƒ“ƒWƒ“�@[2]—¼“��@[3]CD-DA�@[4]Vectrex

[5]More pictures please! Shashin Kudasai!

[6]It is very hard for americans who like Japanese games. There are no pictures or engish information. I do not know what a sc3000 is, but I want to know!

[�ìŽÒ‚©‚çˆêŒ¾]“o˜^�ì‹Æ’†"

Looks pretty ancient! A time when ASSEMbler did not know what a SC3000 was!!

[id-republix]

Is this it? :

From here :

http://assembler.org/

Name of original site :

ASMBLR

URL for still active homepage :

http://assembler.org/

[Blur2040]

Hrm...is it http://assembler.emugaming.com ?

That's the oldest one i could find...I was confused the first time I found it...it was a little after I found the roarvgm page.


Haha, I knew you had a geocities site at one point, it's just a helluva lot harder to find now.

http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Ginza/2271/pcengin.html

Keropi's Yakuza Bar?

oh, www.geocities.com/ranmaddict also works

[Calpis]

http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Ginza/2271/
http://www.geocities.com/ranmaddict/
http://www.geocities.com/escaflowne2271/

Three old sites.

I remember the name Keroppi's Yakuza bar, but the Ginza site circa 1999 says Kappakappa's Yakuza bar. Neither of those are original name are they?

[Blur2040]

I used the internet archive...and on an old assembler page...he wrote that he started in 1995 with a geocities page called Keroppi's Yakuza Bar. With that, he listed the address of the geocities page from before he split onto emugaming and roar!.

[ASSEMbler]

Keropi's Yakuza Bar?

oh, www.geocities.com/ranmaddict (http://www.geocities.com/ranmaddict) also works

Wow you guys work fast ! Correct. Circa 1995.

[ASSEMbler]

Now if you can only figure out where the ansi comes from.

a hint, you're on the right path with the usenet stuff.

[Rowny]

From this site??
http://ranma.animemanga.de

Haven't got a clue

[Blur2040]

Well, the best I can do, is this.

I looked through the google usenet archives...

and the only time I can find you referencing ANSI art is here

"ansis
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KEVIN O'CONNOR Feb 11 1996, 12:00 am show options
Newsgroups: rec.games.video.advocacy
From: KEVIN.O'CON...@141.magsystems.com (KEVIN O'CONNOR) - Find messages by this author
Date: 1996/02/11
Subject: ansis
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Hi Jon, the ansi zips are uploaded. Look for arj files. "

I can't find any other instance of it. I don't know where you uploaded those to though, so I'm stuck. I looked over most of your posts from around that time, but I couldn't find anything else reference ansi art.

[ASSEMbler]

Close, it's from my old excaliber BBS. 3x 14.4baud

[madhatter256]

Close, it's from my old excaliber BBS. 3x 14.4baud


Is that still up and running?

What's the telnet address?

[retro]

Hehe, I very much doubt it madhatter!

Well, I didn't find much - would've looked harder but then someone beat me to it! I did find the yahoo user ranmaddict, which would have linked me to geocities. Found it in a Melissa Joan Hart appreciation group ;) Only usenet stuff I came across were some neo geo board, and something where you were saying you didn't know what a SC3000 was! Oh dear! ;)

[XerdoPwerko]

I recall seeing that one layout (www.geocities.com/ranmaddict) back when I was starting in college!

There was a version with that same lady, but only in black, white and red, right?
Or is it the same layout I remember?

[Blur2040]

So, I totally win, right?

::hopes for a million dollars::

[WolverineDK]

ASCI or ANSI ? what is the right word for art made of symbols ?

because i remember when i was reading the old crackers documents they say ASCI... so what is the right word for it ?

[retro]

ASCII art is art made of letters and numbers, i.e. ASCII characters. So I guess this is ANSI