Makestation

That mightta gotten not too terribly far from the character limit.

* Darth-Apple admires such artwork.

Came across this on another forum.

___________((_____))
____________))___((
___________((_____))
____________))___((
___________((_____))____________$$$$$$
____________))___((____________$$____$$
_$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$______$$
__$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$_______$$
___$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$________$$
____$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$________$$
____$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$______$$
_____$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$_____$$
_____$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
______$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
_______$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
_________$$$$$$$$$$$$
___________$$$$$$$$
_$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
___$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
_____$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$__

Mew Mew

also...

╭━━━━━━━╮
┃　　● ══　      ┃
┃██████████┃
┃██████████┃
┃██████████┃
┃██████████┃
┃██████████┃
┃██████████┃
┃██████████┃
┃██████████┃
┃　　 　O　  　  ┃
╰━━━━━━━╯

I phone anyone?

I love the phone one. I didn't know that was possible with an ASCII character set.

you should totally look into some of the stuff they got away with in old dos games that used ASCII art

＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿
| Windows Dialog　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 [－] [口] [×]   |
| ￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣|
|　Windows has detected that this song is awesome!                           |
|     Do you agree? 　　　　　　                                                       |
|　 　　＿＿＿＿＿＿　　　　＿＿＿＿＿＿　　　　＿＿＿＿＿　　    |
| 　 　｜　 Yes　     |　　　  ｜　Maybe　｜ 　       | 　  No    |         |
|　 　　￣￣￣￣￣￣　　　　￣￣￣￣￣￣　　　　￣￣￣￣￣　       |
|＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿ __|


                   _
                  /\
           _n   / , \
          |  |/ / \ \=========,________
          | / /;-----;\ \        \      \
          / / ||_|_|| \ \        \      \
        / /=  ||_|_||  =\ \________\______\
      /_/     '-----'     \_\-------;------|"
      "| .---.   .---. = .---. |  .--.  |=.--. |
       | |T_T|   |T_T|   |T_T| |  |LI|  | |LI| |
       | |L_I|=  |L_I|   |L_I| |= |LI|  | |LI| |
       | '---'   '---' _.--._' |  '--' =| '--' |
      _|__=_____=___,-" _.._ "-;_=______|_____=|_
     /_______________,-" __ "-._________T________\
      || = .----.   || !|LI|! ||  .--.  | .--. ||
      ||   |LILI| = ||  |  |  ||= |LI|  | |LI|=||
      ||=  |LILI|= _JL_ | '| _JL_ |LI|  |=|LI| ||
      ||  _'----' _|""|_|__|_|""| '--' =| '--' ||.--.
      |;-' )TTTT( ') |======|  |(-TTTTTTTTTT(    )"
  " ""(    )|(      )|======|  (      )|||||||(      )
       '-Y-"""'- Y-'"/      \"""--Y-`"""""""""'-Y--'"
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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Lmao... I think the windows dialogue is by far my favorite so far...

Did they ever actually do this in old DOS programs?

         _,,,_                           _
        /////\\                    _ |\ | \|\  _
       // e e \\                  / |~\|_/|~\|_) _
      ("   >   ")    _            \_,         |_)|_)
       \\.=-=.//   \/ )     _ |\ /               | \|\
     \--\\\7///--/ /\/   _ |_)|~\                   |~\
     /--"""--'\/ /   |_)| \
    /      :   \   / |\ |_)
    \  '-.,_    -'  |~\
     -._/__)======_____,
                 ((=====))
           _      |"""|    _//
      \,_('>     |=    |   (')
        \~_)      |=    |    ( '-.
        -'=       -...-`   _/-_(_)o 

Sure, I mean dwarf fortress does it now with the unmodified version, there's the original Rouge where the term Rouge-like originated, there's privateer of course, all good games but some of the best ASCII artwork originated on BBS servers back in the day where they did all sorts of tricks with it.
also there's TUI or Textmode User interfaces.
think GUI but everything is ASCII graphics.


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║Yeah those borders are all in the ASCII character set if you know where to look.    ║ 
║It's really amazing what you can do with just ASCII and a bit of creative thinking. ║▒▒▒
║Helps to use a Monospace Font too.                                                  ║▒▒▒
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This next ASCII graphic is from a BBS.

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  ____' __ _____ *____________ '______  ________ +______________  _ '_____ .__
'/ __ \/ // / _ \/ __/  _/ __ \/  _/  |/  / __/ |/ / __/  _/ __ \/ |/ / _ \/ /
/ /_/ / // / _  /\ \_/ // /_/ // // /|_/ / _//    /\ \_/ // /_/ /    / _  / /_
\___\_\___/_//_/___/___/_____/___/_/  /_/___/_/|_/___/___/\____/_/|_/_//_/___/
 ____________ '. ____________ +  ____________ .  ____________  . ____________'
|            |. |            | .|            |  |            |  |            |
|    ________|  |    ____    |  |    ____    |' |    ________|  |    ________|
|   | ' .  +  . |   | .  |   |' |   | .' |   | .|   | '.   +  ' |   | .  ' +
|   |________   |   |+  '|   |  |   |' + |   |  |   |.    '   . |   |________
|            | *|   |____|   | .|   |____|   |* |   |  *   .(  '|            |
|________    |. |            |. |            |  |   | '  ,  . ' |    ________|
. '  *.  |   | '|    ________|  |    ____    |' |   |  .   : '  |   | ' * . '
 ________|   |  |   | '   .    *|   | .  |   | :|   |________ ' |   |________
|            |' |   |. '     .  |   |  ' |   |  |            | .|            |
|____________| .|___|       .   |___|' . |___|. |____________|. |____________|
 .   *     ' .   '       .    '+ .      '   *    .  '      (     +  '.  :
.      + '            * .         .   '       . +    .   '    .       *   '

and here's some of that filler from the I'phone
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anyone else think we need an ASCII art thread? lol

Beep Beep.

♫♪.ılılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llılılı.♫♪

oh and this one's for you bben

✈__✈ █ █ ▄

^^^
9/11

and now for some actual spam... here's an army of Daleks.

̵̄/͇̐\ ̵̄/͇̐\ ̵̄/͇̐\ ̵̄/͇̐\ ̵̄/͇̐\ ̵̄/͇̐\ ̵̄/͇̐\ ̵̄/͇̐\ ̵̄/͇̐\ ̵̄/͇̐\ ̵̄/͇̐\ ̵̄/͇̐\ ̵̄/͇̐\ ̵̄/͇̐\ ̵̄/͇̐\ ̵̄/͇̐\ ̵̄/͇̐\ ̵̄/͇̐\ ̵̄/͇̐\ ̵̄/͇̐\ ̵̄/͇̐\
where's the doctor when you need him.

beep boop boop bop

boo boo beep bop

beep boop boop beep

     .--..--..--..--..--..--.
   .' \  (._   (_)     _   \
 .'    |  '._)         (_)  |
 \ _.')\      .----..---.   /
 |(_.'  |    /    .-\-.  \  |
 \     0|    |   ( O| O) | o|
  |  _  |  .--.____.'._.-.  |
  \ (_) | o         - .-  |
   |    \   |-._ _ _ _ _\ /
   \    |   |  . |_||_|   |
   | o  |    \_      \     |     -.   .-.
   |.-.  \     --..-'   O |     .-' .'
 _.'  .' |     -.-'      /-.__   ' .-'
.' -. '.|='=.='=.='=.='=|._/_ -'.'
-._  .  |________/\_____|    -.'
  .'   ).| '=' '='\/ '=' |
  ._.`  '---------------'
          //___\   //___\
            ||       ||
            ||_.-.   ||_.-.
           (_.--__) (_.--__)

Quackity quack quack!!!