mistfunk: Mistigris: est. 1994 (Default)
2023-12-28 03:21 pm

BADAPPLE/FILE_ID.DIZ



Mistodon: the FILE_ID.DIZ -- the description of the contents of our BADAPPLE.ZIP release -- not only describes the contours of an iconic vignette in the original #BadApple!! shadow music video, the titular apple being briefly considered, but does so using #ANSImusic instructions as positive space filler which yield, when played, the bleepy #PCSpeaker tune you can hear at this very moment (if your volume is turned up.) Thanks to LDA for providing the code for the tune and to AndyH for hammering it into shape and providing the main course with his #BadApple!! ANSImation included in the archive.
mistfunk: Mistigris: est. 1994 (Default)
2023-12-28 01:04 am

BADAPPLE/BADAPPLE.ANS


Mistigram: After working its way out of the soundtrack to 1998's NEC PC-9800 bullet hell video game Lotus Land Story by Team Shanghai Alice (aka Jun'ya "ZUN" Ōta), the #BadApple!! song was covered by Alstroemeria Records, yielding a recording that was eventually celebrated with a shadow-puppetry style music video. Due to the way that the monochrome palette of that video easily translates to the displays of underpowered and unlikely vintage technology and computing platforms, adapting it to different formats has become a fashionable pastime among certain circles. Here, for possibly the first time in this particular niche, Andy "NDH" Herbert, creator of the Moebius ANSI art editor, has converted the Bad Apple!! music video to #ANSImation (or #ANSIart animation.) Though it isn't entirely synchronized to the on-screen action (as ANSImation pacing isn't an exact science), we have piped in the celebrated Bad Apple!! music so you have something to groove to while you watch the block characters do their thing on your screen.
mistfunk: Mistigris: est. 1994 (Default)
2023-12-02 11:49 pm

ADVENT23

Mistigram: just to remind, we just dropped ADVENT23, an #MSDOS program by Andy "Moebius" Herbert acting as an #ANSIart #AdventCalendar: every day (up to Dec 25) it unlocks a new 25-line ANSI screen for your viewing pleasure, viewable through a web browser via https://16colo.rs/pack/advent23/ADVENT.EXE or http://andyh.org/advent23/