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ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering (alexharri.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

Maybe converting the DOS blocks to ANSI blocks. But i don't know if this is feasible with your coding...

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Yeah, I don't think that's particularly feasible with my prime directives in coding things meant to render on a potato. If I'm ever gonna revisit that old code again, I want it to continue to be able to run on old-school 286 CPUs, real raw hardware.

    Like sure I don't mind writing old QBasic/QuickBasic code under an emulator, but if I'm writing on such an antiquated language for legacy hardware, I wanna be able to transfer it to a floppy disk and run it on actual hardware from the era.

    Other than that, going back to the good old days, I don't see much reason to do such coding on modern systems. Though I will say this much, neofetch and the newer fastfetch are pretty awesome character based sysinfo utilities!

    I just don't see myself trying to jump through conversion hoops such as ASCII to ANSI for such a project to even keep me awake..

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