Editing ASCII art (section)

===="Amiga"/"Oldskool" style ASCII art====
[[File:Paso-IceCream-AmigaVsPC.png|right|200px|thumbnail|Oldschool/Amiga ASCII look on Commodore Amiga computer showing noticeably tighter spacing than on the IBM PC]]
In the art scene one popular ASCII style that used the 7-bit standard ASCII character set was the so-called "Oldskool" style. It is also called "Amiga style", due to its origin and widespread use on [[Amiga|Commodore Amiga]] computers. The style uses primarily the characters <code>_/\-+=.()<>:</code> and looks more like the outlined drawings of shapes than real pictures. The accompanying image is an example of "[[Amiga]] style" (also referred to as "old school" or "oldskool" style) [[computer art scene|scene]] ASCII art.<ref name="asciistyles"/>

The Amiga ASCII scene surfaced in 1992, seven years after the introduction of the Commodore [[Amiga 1000]]. The Commodore 64 PETSCII scene did not make the transition to the Commodore Amiga as the C64 demo and warez scenes did. Among the first Amiga ASCII art groups were ART, Epsilon Design, Upper Class, Unreal (later known as "DeZign"). This means that the text art scene on the Amiga was actually younger than the text art scene on the PC. The Amiga artists also did not call their ASCII art style "Oldskool". That term was introduced on the PC; when and by whom is unknown and lost to history.

The Amiga style ASCII artwork was most often released in the form of a single text file, which included all the artwork (usually requested), with some design parts in between, as opposed to the PC art scene where the art work was released as a [[ZIP archive]] with separate text files for each piece. Furthermore, the releases were usually called "ASCII collections" and not "art packs" like on the IBM PC.

=====In text editors=====
<pre style="float:right;">
 _____ ___ ____ _      _   
|  ___|_ _/ ___| | ___| |_ 
| |_   | | |  _| |/ _ \ __|
|  _|  | | |_| | |  __/ |_ 
|_|   |___\____|_|\___|\__|

</pre>
This kind of ASCII art is handmade in a text editor. Popular editors used to make this kind of ASCII art include [[Microsoft Notepad]], [[CygnusEd]]itor also known as CED ([[Amiga]]), and EditPlus2 ([[Wintel|PC]]).

The accompanying image shows an [[Oldskool font]] example done with the ASCII editor [[FIGlet]] on a PC.