Pakistan Video to ASCII Art Text Typography - 1980s Retro Commodore 64, Amiga, MSX, IBM PC AT/XT, ZX Spectrum & Atari Computers

[ebayuser]

Hi, I am from Pakistan, and I am looking for ASCII Art fans, Who love 1980s/90s retro ASCII Text art on C64, Amiga, MSX, IBM PC XT/AT, Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Atari machines. I used those all machines in my teenage, i love ASCII Art so now i converted a video into text ASCII Art in 4 stages with my customized programming scripts in various languages. And then I combined all 4 parts of the videos and made a single video for the final demonstration. I mentioned the each ASCII stage heading on the top of video. I uploaded this video on YouTube and I suggest you please watch the video at 720p resolution in full screen mode for better results. and mobile phone users can magnify video to see text characters. You can't find this type of real time video ASCII art on the entire YouTube. I also uploaded the original mp4 file on free file sharing site because YouTube encoding was very bad it convert my video in poor quality. So if you want to see high quality result of ASCII text then you can find the original mp4 file link in the YouTube video description.

Here is the link to the YouTube video, Please also read the video description. And also feedback me with your comments.

ASCII VIDEO

Hope you peoples like it. and Happy New year 2023.

 

[ebayuser]

Thanks

 

[fawadras]

I am more interested to know if there are any retro peeps who still own working/non working Commodores, Ataris, PC XTs,Amstrads, ZX Spectrums?

 

[ebayuser]

Yea i still have some machines in my retro collection like C64, Amiga 500, Amiga 1200, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, MSX SpectraVideo, other MSX and some other retro portable programing computers and programing calculators from Casio and other brands and also some old game consoles like Atari and others.

I had some old PCs like Dual Pentium Pro servers, 486s and old ISA & VESA sound and graphics cards + old SCSI drives but i discard all of them long ago due to shortage of space. But i think i still have some old sound cards and 386 and 286 processors in my collection.

 

[ebayuser]

Yesterday I was free so I converted one of my favorite Indian song video to Color ASCII Text. The song is BESHARAM from the movie BESHARAM 2013 of Ranbir Kapoor. I also added some text animation and background effects and video effects.

I did not use any type of Video Editing software or GIF files. All background Effects, Color Text Scroller, Text Animation, Even Live Real time Video to Color ASCII Text conversion is 100% made with programming code mostly in HTML. Total size of all programing files are just under 100kb, except the song video mp4 file. only i achieve this type of high quality real time color ASCII conversion. So I did not find that thing anywhere , I saw some color video to ASCII apps in python but those did not convert real time live video to ASCII and not a quality result.

I uploaded the video in 720p resolution on febspot.com because it's encoding is much much better than YouTube. this is the reason i did not upload on YouTube because YouTube encoding is very bad specially on small animated text.

My original output mp4 file result is very good, has sharp clear n crisp ASCII text but the mp4 size is 1.3gb, ..Ohh yea i did this all on 32bit Windows XP, Q9650 4gb with 1gb GT-720. Why buy an expensive computer if you have skills to do your job on an old skool PC. You can beat Corolla with mehran if the driver is good in all aspects, in these days people spend a lot of money on expensive computers or iPhones for just playing games.

Here is the ASCII video Link: (Please watch in Full Screen)
https://www.febspot.com/1058893

Hope you people like this song demo. Your comments will be appreciated. If you have any question about this demo please ask without any hesitation.

 

[ebayuser]

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