Like I said earlier, it won't come out right unless you use a font that perfectly matches the old IBM PC character set. And even then it'll be fucked-up looking unless you use a small resolution.
Brainwashing
Aiden Ramirez
Julian Phillips
It'll also be black & white won't it? Since unicode leaves presentation except for skin color because marxism out of the standard. A lot of ANSI art was incomprehensible without color, like a color-blindness test. Definitely not like it used to be where text art could just be copypasted.
Evan Walker
You would have to set your terminal emulator colors to match exactly those of the IBM PC. Here's some nice ANSI screens if you want to try it:
artscene.textfiles.com
In my shell, I aliased kat='iconv -c -f CP437 -t utf-8' and that sorta shows them, but the characters alone don't match perfectly the original. Comparing with dosbox or their matching images on link above shows differences. There used to be a "VGA" font for X11 that might be closer than this utf-8 crap, but I dunno wtf I did with it. Anyway this is too much tweaking and I'd rather just run an old computer emulator. That way I can also have a perfect replication of C64 and other text graphics, which as I meantioned earlier, often redefine their characters from within BASIC to make games (pic related). It's this simplicity that I miss the most about old computers. You didn't have to fuck around with libraries and font files and terminal emulators all kinds of stupid shit. Just one BASIC instruction made a dog or spaceship "character" or whatever.
Carter Martin
Yeah, a lot of PC TSRs did that to fuck with "text" mode in various ways, and some intros left things running after they exited like bouncing C64-style "sprites" (simulated via modifying characters) in text mode and text mode raster bars. I never did figure out exactly how text mode raster bars worked but I assumed it was waiting on horizontal refresh then remapping a line of characters.
Julian Martinez
I use an '89 Model M
Logan Reyes
lol they just used the sigil of 6 element black magic like how the hivites tried to harness the sigil of plus sign to harvest positive loosh.
Michael Thomas
I'm pretty sure TempleOS calls it the Windows key too
Kevin Jackson
Take that, Zoomers!
Funny how early 90's non-portable keyboards had a blank space between Ctrl and Alt as if it was implied a functional key is missing.
Jaxon Roberts
Press control with your palm, not by stretching your pinky.
Dylan Lopez
My keyboard had shift key between control and alt.