>-----------------------------------------------------<
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     /  |/  /  _/ | / /  _/ ____/   | / __ \ _
    / /|_/ // //  |/ // // /_  / /| |/ / / /(_)
   / /  / // // /|  // // __/ / ___ / /_/ /_   All the stuff you need for
  /_/  /_/___/_/ |_/___/_/   /_/  |_\___\_(_)         ASCII Art!

         >------------------ By Martin Atkins -----------------<

         Monospaced Fonts
                                Text Editors
                                                         Ascii Utils

         >-----------------------------------------------------<
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         |  \/  | ___  _ __   ___  ___ _ __   __ _  ___ ___  __| |
         | |\/| |/ _ \| '_ \ / _ \/ __| '_ \ / _` |/ __/ _ \/ _` |
         | |  | | (_) | | | | (_) \__ \ |_) | (_| | (_|  __/ (_| |
         |_|  |_|\___/|_| |_|\___/|___/ .__/ \__,_|\___\___|\__,_|
                          / _| ___  _ |_|| |_ ___
                         | |_ / _ \| '_ \| __/ __|
                         |  _| (_) | | | | |_\__ \
                         |_|  \___/|_| |_|\__|___/

Almost all ASCII art is created and intended to be viewed in a monospaced, or fixed width font. Find your operating system/computer on the list below and find a font on your system that is on the list.

Windows:  FixedSys                                 (Supplied with Windows)
          Courier New                              (Supplied with Windows)
          Courier                                  (Supplied with Windows)
          Lucida Console             (Supplied with Microsoft Win95 Plus!)
          Topaz New
          Monotype.com
          Terminal
          Lucida Sans Typewiter
          OCR A Extended
          OCRB
          Netextmo
          Video Console Terminal
          Andale Mono
          Crystal
          HyperFont

Amiga:    Topaz                                                   (In ROM)
          Courier                             (Supplied with WorkBench 2+)
          Pearl
          Siesta
          XEN                                         (Comes with MagicWB)
          XCourier                                    (Comes with MagicWB)
          ascii
          tiny

AppleMac: Courier
          Monaco
          ZTerm

Acorn:    Corpus                                            (in Resources)
          System                                            (in Resources)

If you can`t find any of the fonts on the list, please try looking at this in all fonts available:

iiiii iiiii iiiii iiiii|
mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm|

In a fixed width font, both of the | symbols should match in distance from the left side of the screen. If you find a common font that isn`t on the list, please email mart.atkins@bigfoot.com and tell me about it, along with what operating system/computer it is from.

.---- To get a Monospaced/Fixed Width font in MS Outlook Express -->
|Click Tools/ Options.
|Click the Read tab.
|Click the Fonts button.
|Select Courier or another fixed width font for ALL of the listboxes.
|Select Smallest.
|Click OK.
|Click OK.
'------------------ (Thanks to aardvarko) ------------------------->
         >------------------------------------------------------<
                             _____         _
                            |_   _|____  _| |_
                              | |/ _ \ \/ / __|
                              | |  __/>  <| |_
                      _____   |_|\___/_/\_\\__|
                     | ____|__| (_) |_ ___  _ __ ___
                     |  _| / _` | | __/ _ \| '__/ __|
                     | |__| (_| | | || (_) | |  \__ \
                     |_____\__,_|_|\__\___/|_|  |___/

A lot of ASCII art is made in a text editor - usually like a wordprocessor but without text formatting functions.

Un*x:      vi
           pico
           emacs
           jed
           joe
           ed
           jove

Windows95: Notepad                                   (Comes with Windows!)
      /98  EDIT.COM                                  (Comes with windows!)
           MicroEMACS
           EditPad
           PFE32
           UltraEdit                                   (www.ultraedit.com)
           TextPad                           (www.textpad.com - shareware)
           Vim                               (www.pcisys.net/~kscott/vim/)

Windows3:  Notepad                                   (Comes with Windows!)
           MicroEMACS
           PFE
           UltraEdit                                   (www.ultraedit.com)

MSDOS:     EDIT           (Comes with DOS 5/6 - Type EDIT at command line)
           QEdit
           MicroEmacs
           GNU Emacs
           TheDraw                                             (shareware)
           AcidDraw                                            (shareware)

Amiga:     Ed           (On Workbench Disk - run 'Ed <filename>' in shell)
           MicroEMACS             (Supplied with Workbench on Extras disk)
           Blacks Editor
           CygnusEd
           AZ
           NotePad                   (included with Workbench 1.2 and 1.3)
           TED                        (Included with ACID Blitz Basic 2.1)
           SuperTED              (Included with Blitz Basic support suite)

AppleMac:  Nisus
           SimpleText                                (included with MacOS)
           TeachText                                 (included with MacOS)
           Saint Edit                                      (shareware $10)
           BBEdit         (commercial but free light version is available)
           Tex-Edit Plus                                       (shareware)

Linux:     joe
           nedit

Acorn:     !Edit                                            (in Resources)
           !Zap
           !StrongEd

Atari:     Everest
           QED
           Steno
           EditPro

Commodore  Zed
   64/128: NovaPic
         >------------------------------------------------------<
                _    ____   ____ ___ ___
               / \  / ___| / ___|_ _|_ _| _   _ _   _ _
              / _ \ \___ \| |    | | | | | | | | |_(_) |___
             / ___ \ ___) | |___ | | | | | | | | __| | / __|
            /_/   \_\____/ \____|___|___|| |_| | |_| | \__ \
             ---------------------------  \___/ \__|_|_|___/

Some utils to help with the creation of ASCIIArt:

Jave is the new hot thing that replaces (or includes) many of the other tools mentioned in this category. It requires Java.

Both TheDraw and ACiDDraw latest versions are available at
http://artpacks.acid.org/programs/editors/

Please note that none of these ASCII Utils are necesary for creation of ASCII Art, but merely to aid creation It is totally possible to make ASCII Art in any of the editors on the 'Text Editors' list. TheDraw and AcidDraw, however are editors in their own right, so could be used instead of a 'traditional' text editor. I have a few of these editors, but not all. If you email me and ask I`ll send it if I have it! My email address is at various places in this document.

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                .-----------------------------------------.
                |Compiled by Martin Atkins with help from:|
                | * Veronica Karlsson                     |
                | * Jorn Barger                           |
                | * Colin Douthwaite                      |
                | * Randy Gardner                         |
                | * Ilmari Karonen                        |
                | * aardvarko                             |
                | * gumby                                 |
                | * Valentin Valciu                       |
                | * Hayley Jane Wakenshaw                 |
                | * llizard                               |
                | * Sami Sihvonen                         |
                | * Doug Wilson                           |
                | * Brock Kevin Nambo                     |
                | * Cipher                                |
                | * Ben Norwood                           |
                | * Matthew Thomas                        |
                | * RaD Man                               |
                | * natedac                               |
                | * Joergen                               |
                | * msh210                                |
                | * stephane HAbeTT roux                  |
                | * Dom Esplen                            |
                | * Hilton Janfield                       |
                | * FireDraake                            |
                '-----------------------------------------'

         >------------- Last Updated 17-12-98 -----------------<

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