How can i make art on an apple 1

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How can i make art on an apple 1

Hi i want to learn to code a creepers face that say SSSS!! on 6502 assembly

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It's called "ASCII graphics" 

In post #1, marvan asked:

 

"How can i make art on an apple 1 ?"

 

Uncle Bernie recommends:

 

Find the AIFF file for "Apple, the 30th" and load it into the Apple-1. Search for Apple 1 cassette AIFF WAV to find the depositories on the web.

 

Inspect the code.

 

This was a nice demo they wrote for Apple's 30th birthday and it showed pictures of Steve Jobs, Woz, and various Apple products using the graphics characters of the Apple-1. And for the limitations, the outcome was quite good.

 

The tedious part of course is to convert a picture or a drawing into ASCII codes which mimic the correct shades of grey. IIRC, there is open source software out there which can do that, but it requires a more modern machine to run on.

 

All this dates back to the 1960s and 1970s where the likes of Snoopy and other comic strip characters were printed out on a line printer, often combined with a calendar of the year to pretend it serves a purpose. I once blew the line printer paper budget for a whole month to print out Snoopy for my classmates.

 

- Uncle Bernie

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ok thanks

ok thanks

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Hi Marvan0305!

I did something for my project on Soviet cosmonautics, Tsiolkovsky, Korolev, Gagarin... I used this resource, there's nothing complicated about it.

https://manytools.org/hacker-tools/convert-images-to-ascii-art/

 

 

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