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Figure 12 illustrates how infuriatingly bad ASCII art looked on the IBM PC.

I used to run a utility in my AUTOEXEC.BAT that installed the Amiga font in the character ROM, but it still felt like we PC guys missed out on most of the cool stuff. And guess who won?

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Very true, we did miss out. The Amgia folks were sure to let us know about it any time we went to a BBS meet too! I did all my BBSing on a DOS PC. There was cool "newschool" ASCII and ANSI art designed for PCs too. At the time it felt magical opening up an art pack or a demo with chiptune music. Experiencing the underground coding and art scene definitely influenced my life a lot.

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