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An alternative to your first link: https://jp.itch.io/playscii. Source: about 2 years ago
Oh, and to easily convert images to ANSI-like art on a modern system, use a program called Playscii (https://jp.itch.io/playscii). Source: almost 3 years ago
I found this cool ASCII art program on Itch.io called Playscii. After faffing about with it for a while I thought some of the character sets would work well for making maps. So I redrew the map of a Sky Tomb from the Stars Without Number adventure Hard Light. They're not spectacular (I'm still new to visual art) but I think they look super cool. I think this visual style fits really well with the OSR. Source: about 3 years ago
I use JAVE. It's not the best, but it's good for tracing pictures since it has a watermark feature. Source: almost 3 years ago
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