Editing ASCII art (section)

===={{anchor|ATASCII art}}Atari 400/800 ATASCII====
The [[Atari 8-bit computers|Atari 400/800]], which were released in 1979, did not follow the ASCII standard and had their own character set, called [[ATASCII]].<ref>{{cite web| last= Štěrba|first= Radek| title= ATASCII
| date= 20 December 2005| url=http://raster.infos.cz/atari/chars/atascii.htm|access-date  = 20 December 2005| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20051220204949/http://raster.infos.cz/atari/chars/atascii.htm| archive-date = 20 December 2005}}(gif image)</ref><ref>{{cite web| last1= Moeser| first1= David| last2= Fusik| first2= Piotr| url= http://www.faqs.org/faqs/atari-8-bit/faq/section-49.html| date= 13 May 2007|title= 7.2: What is the ATASCII character set? | publisher= faqs.org|access-date= 5 March 2008}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=March 2012}} The emergence of ATASCII art coincided with the growing popularity of [[Bulletin board system|BBS Systems]] caused by availability of the [[acoustic coupler]]s that were compatible with the 8-bit home computers. ATASCII text animations are also referred to as "break animations" by the Atari sceners.