If anyone else wants to help look, post your suggestions below. I’ve been looking for old Snoopy on top of his doghouse ASCII art to see if I can find the one her uncle used (circa 1979, remember). People used to print out banners on them using software like Print Shop. Just so you guys know, she’s talking about a “banner” as in a long sheet of unbroken, 8.5″ wide tractor feed paper. You can then load an image, and then create a size up to anything X 999 (the maximum) and print your image. Hit the download button, wait until it downloads automatically (the “download” links after you’ve hit the download button are misleading as they’re actually ads for other websites), and then unRAR the file and load it up. You then hit the send button, and it’ll generate a new webpage with the ascii art of the image, which you can then print normally.Īnother alternative, which provides muuuuch bigger images is a piece of software called Ascii Generator 2 for Windows you can find here: You just link an image or upload one from your computer, set the size to as big as you want (it doesn’t go very big on the site unfortunately), and the font size. As a banner, I’d imagine you’d want it to be pretty big. It all depends on what you want to do, and what size. There look to be a few websites that do it, and some software too. Well, except for their equally talented rival ICE, Insane Creators Enterprises! I’m hesitant to post a link to abandonware here, even for 33-year-old obsolete software, so I’ll advise you to search for “print master abandonware dos”.Īlternatively, I hope Rowan Lipkovits’ comment above bears fruit! Nobody holds a candle to ASCII\ANSI art made by the artists at ACiD, aka ANSI Creators In Demand. Surely this could be replicated for a large poster at Kinkos. Last Fathers Day I found an abandonware site with that application, ran it in DOSbox, designed a card, and captured a screenshot of the finished product since I couldn’t figure out how to print from DOSbox. In the early 80s my family used a DOS program called Printmaster to make posters and greeting cards on our dot matrix printer. I’ve invited the folks at ACiD, the textmode artwork authorities, to weigh in. The even harder part will be finding a dot matrix printer you can send it to! Pinging is currently not allowed.ġ0 Responses to “Woman Needs Help with ASCII Banner for Uncle’s Memorial”įor the text, try “printerbanner” in Linux:Īdding an image is a bit trickier, but it’s something you can just paste in in a text editor if you find an ASCII version of what you want. You can skip to the end and leave a response. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. On Wednesday, May 8th, 2013 at 10:33 am and is filed under Art, Computer History, Fuzzy Memory, Regular Features, Vintage Computing. Tags: ascii art, ascii banner, Fuzzy Memory, help, IBM, memorial, printout I’ll pass along your email address (leave it in the comment form) if she wants to contact you further. Post your suggestions or offers to help in the comments, and Chimene will keep an eye on them. Any help you can provide would be so greatly appreciated. I know that there would be no better way for me to honor my uncle and I am desperate to find a way to get this done. Do you have any idea how I could go about getting this done? I am not tech savvy so I would love to find someone that can do this for me and do it quickly. I would like to have one of these made for my uncle for his memorial. Because my brain had no conceptual framework for the world of computers, I literally wondered if it was created by magic. ![]() The letters were made with x or o or maybe dashes. This was before home computers and home printers for our family. I literally thought it was the coolest thing. It had a silhouette of Snoopy on the top of his dog house and it said “Happy Birthday Chimene”. In 1979, when I was 9 years old, he gave me a banner for my birthday. My uncle was a lifetime IBM employee and computer pioneer. I have been racking my brain on a way to honor him at his memorial. We are holding his memorial on Saturday, May 11th. My uncle recently passed away quite unexpectedly at the age of 69. Here is her email (posted with permission): ![]() I have a few ideas on how to do it, but I’m short on time this week, so I’m hoping someone out there can help her. They will be honoring a lifetime IBM veteran who passed away recently at the age of 69. Just today I received an email asking for help in producing an ASCII-art style printed banner for a memorial service that will take place this Saturday, May 11th, 2013.
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