aSCIIaRENa is Officially Open!

spoUP · 20 November 2009, 21:54

In case you wondered what Spot/Up Rough has been up to lately, here's your answer:
I have been busy learning PHP/SQL/HTML. Five months later, here's the result...

Up Rough and Divine Stylers presents:

aSCIIaRENa - the new home for the ASCII Scene is now officially launched!

aSCIIaRENa aims to be THE resource for Scene ASCII, as well as a database of artists and crews.
But not only that, you can vote and comment on collys.
Users can and are encouraged to submit ASCII Collections, ASCII Mags and ASCII related apps.

The site has the usual features, a tag wall, a forum, private messages etc.
The main feature is that it displays ASCII 100% accurate, just like in CED on your old 1084 monitor
on you Amiga thanks to the use of Ansilove that has been improved to fill the needs of aSCIIaRENA.

Credits:

Main Coding: Spot / Up Rough^diViNe sTYLERs
Add Coding: Cleaner (Ansilove), Yonx / Up Rough
Fonts: dMG / diViNe sTYLERs

Thanks to:
Yonx, for being my SQL/Coding tutor through many long nights!
dMG, for being the main beta tester, and for asciiarena.com!
Ziphoid for hosting the site and for endless help/love/support, and for providing chill music via SceneSat!

Now, head over to aSCIIaRENa and have fun!

kriz · 21 November 2009, 11:35

hey cool, maybe i should make some ascii tonight

W4r3DeV1L · 21 November 2009, 21:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by spoUP

In case you wondered what Spot/Up Rough has been up to lately, here's your answer:
I have been busy learning PHP/SQL/HTML. Five months later, here's the result...

Up Rough and Divine Stylers presents:

aSCIIaRENa - the new home for the ASCII Scene is now officially launched!

aSCIIaRENa aims to be THE resource for Scene ASCII, as well as a database of artists and crews.
But not only that, you can vote and comment on collys.
Users can and are encouraged to submit ASCII Collections, ASCII Mags and ASCII related apps.

The site has the usual features, a tag wall, a forum, private messages etc.
The main feature is that it displays ASCII 100% accurate, just like in CED on your old 1084 monitor
on you Amiga thanks to the use of Ansilove that has been improved to fill the needs of aSCIIaRENA.

Credits:

Main Coding: Spot / Up Rough^diViNe sTYLERs
Add Coding: Cleaner (Ansilove), Yonx / Up Rough
Fonts: dMG / diViNe sTYLERs

Thanks to:
Yonx, for being my SQL/Coding tutor through many long nights!
dMG, for being the main beta tester, and for asciiarena.com!
Ziphoid for hosting the site and for endless help/love/support, and for providing chill music via SceneSat!

Now, head over to aSCIIaRENa and have fun!

really cool!!!!

Paul_s · 22 November 2009, 15:49

Extremely cool.

I'm wondering whether the EAB forum would look better in ASCII itself! Imagine the speed compared to VB

Make it so number one

mihcael · 23 November 2009, 00:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul_s

Extremely cool.

I'm wondering whether the EAB forum would look better in ASCII itself! Imagine the speed compared to VB

...

If ascii so so cool, why are they using a PNG (picture of ascii?) as there page title rather then straight acsii?

yoki · 24 November 2009, 16:25

it's a script converting ascii->png to make it as close as the original amiga experience as possible.. using normal truetype fonts just doesn't cut it since they are rendered differently depending on os/browser.. where png can't be used because of practical reasons the site use the new feature in CSS3 to embed a special-made topaz, but it renders awfully bad on osx because of the auto-antialias..

sink · 24 November 2009, 21:25

nice work!!

mihcael · 25 November 2009, 05:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by yoki

it's a script converting ascii->png to make it as close as the original amiga experience as possible.. using normal truetype fonts just doesn't cut it since they are rendered differently depending on os/browser.. where png can't be used because of practical reasons the site use the new feature in CSS3 to embed a special-made topaz, but it renders awfully bad on osx because of the auto-antialias..

Ok, thats cool then!

andreas · 25 November 2009, 21:09

Whoaaa. Very good stuff.

I especially love that cool font which lets people get real nostalgic because it's sort of reminiscent of "golden" BBS days...

colourspace · 06 March 2021, 22:05

is there an archive of the art that was hosted on this site?

talybont · 08 August 2021, 14:53

I think it's back at a new url: https://www.asciiarena.se/

Phantasm · 10 August 2021, 12:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by talybont

I think it's back at a new url: https://www.asciiarena.se/

It surely is and with lots of new work being/been done on it.

Lucidphreak · 28 September 2021, 03:31

Holy shit what a nice site!!!

Phantasm.. are you the guy who ran Unauthorized Access?

Phantasm · 28 September 2021, 16:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lucidphreak

Holy shit what a nice site!!!

Phantasm.. are you the guy who ran Unauthorized Access?

Nope

DisasterIncarna · 04 October 2023, 14:33

is this now defunct? website shows as expired? the .se link also doesnt work.

kriz · 04 October 2023, 14:42

Ohh that sucks! Spot should know what happened with it..

spoUP · 04 October 2023, 20:34

The server crashed. We are working on it.

kriz · 04 October 2023, 23:16

Ok good it is not gone!

DisasterIncarna · 05 October 2023, 01:05

20 November 2009, 21:54	#1
spoUP Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: sweden Age: 46 Posts: 430	aSCIIaRENa is Officially Open! In case you wondered what Spot/Up Rough has been up to lately, here's your answer: I have been busy learning PHP/SQL/HTML. Five months later, here's the result... Up Rough and Divine Stylers presents: aSCIIaRENa - the new home for the ASCII Scene is now officially launched! aSCIIaRENa aims to be THE resource for Scene ASCII, as well as a database of artists and crews. But not only that, you can vote and comment on collys. Users can and are encouraged to submit ASCII Collections, ASCII Mags and ASCII related apps. The site has the usual features, a tag wall, a forum, private messages etc. The main feature is that it displays ASCII 100% accurate, just like in CED on your old 1084 monitor on you Amiga thanks to the use of Ansilove that has been improved to fill the needs of aSCIIaRENA. Credits: Main Coding: Spot / Up Rough^diViNe sTYLERs Add Coding: Cleaner (Ansilove), Yonx / Up Rough Fonts: dMG / diViNe sTYLERs Thanks to: Yonx, for being my SQL/Coding tutor through many long nights! dMG, for being the main beta tester, and for asciiarena.com! Ziphoid for hosting the site and for endless help/love/support, and for providing chill music via SceneSat! Now, head over to aSCIIaRENa and have fun!

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21 November 2009, 11:35	#2
kriz Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: No(R)Way Age: 41 Posts: 3,185	hey cool, maybe i should make some ascii tonight

22 November 2009, 15:49	#4
Paul_s Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Amigaville Age: 46 Posts: 3,334	Extremely cool. I'm wondering whether the EAB forum would look better in ASCII itself! Imagine the speed compared to VB Make it so number one

24 November 2009, 16:25	#6
yoki Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Göteborg / Sweden Posts: 25	it's a script converting ascii->png to make it as close as the original amiga experience as possible.. using normal truetype fonts just doesn't cut it since they are rendered differently depending on os/browser.. where png can't be used because of practical reasons the site use the new feature in CSS3 to embed a special-made topaz, but it renders awfully bad on osx because of the auto-antialias..

24 November 2009, 21:25	#7
sink Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: france Age: 53 Posts: 197	nice work!!

25 November 2009, 21:09	#9
andreas Zone Friend Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Germany Age: 50 Posts: 5,857	Whoaaa. Very good stuff. I especially love that cool font which lets people get real nostalgic because it's sort of reminiscent of "golden" BBS days...

06 March 2021, 22:05	#10
colourspace Registered User Join Date: Apr 2020 Location: CHICAGO / USA Posts: 32	is there an archive of the art that was hosted on this site?

08 August 2021, 14:53	#11
talybont Registered User Join Date: Oct 2016 Location: Norway Posts: 170	I think it's back at a new url: https://www.asciiarena.se/

28 September 2021, 03:31	#13
Lucidphreak Registered User Join Date: May 2016 Location: USA Posts: 56	Holy shit what a nice site!!! Phantasm.. are you the guy who ran Unauthorized Access?

04 October 2023, 14:33	#15
DisasterIncarna Registered User Join Date: Oct 2021 Location: England Posts: 1,170	is this now defunct? website shows as expired? the .se link also doesnt work.

04 October 2023, 14:42	#16
kriz Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: No(R)Way Age: 41 Posts: 3,185	Ohh that sucks! Spot should know what happened with it..

04 October 2023, 20:34	#17
spoUP Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: sweden Age: 46 Posts: 430	The server crashed. We are working on it.

04 October 2023, 23:16	#18
kriz Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: No(R)Way Age: 41 Posts: 3,185	Ok good it is not gone!

05 October 2023, 01:05	#19
DisasterIncarna Registered User Join Date: Oct 2021 Location: England Posts: 1,170

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