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BORN FROM INFORMATION FILES
containing release notes from
cracked games comes the somewhat
infamous NFO art.
Here's a little two character
version of a logo:
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Usually, it's a one color logo
drawn with extended ASCII block
characters like █ ▄ ▀ and shading
▓ ▒ ░.
Sometimes it's inverted - the
whole document filled with █'s
and then the graphics removed as
white space in the document.
Artwork
+--------------------------------------+
Some really nice NFO graphics dug
out from the 16colo.rs archives.
2001/sac-21/frx-stc1.asc
<sac>
2010/chemical.reaction.ascii.alle...
<cro>
2000/cro0600/ZNT-HZRD.ASC
<cro>
Syncopy / H7
<2021/fire-34/H7-SYNCP.ASC>
Noir / tnt & mx & iks
<2021/impure80/tnt&mx&iks-noir.asc>
Ramseis / iks
<2022/impure81/iks-ramseis.asc>
Legions ARK / h7
<2014/break_05/h7-lark.nfo>
Adversity / Ferrex
<2000/sac-20/Frx-Avt1.asc>
SAC / mydknight & ferrex
<2009/sac-36/sac.nfo>
BORN FROM INFORMATION FILES containing release notes from cracked
games comes the somewhat infamous NFO art.
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▄██▀▀▀ ▄██▀▀▀░ ███▀▀▀▀
Usually, it's a one color logo drawn with extended ASCII block
characters like █ ▄ ▀ and shading ▓ ▒ ░.
Sometimes it's inverted - the whole document filled with █'s and
then the graphics removed as white space in the document.
One of the most iconic NFOs designed, the Fairlight logo by JED, even
made it onto t-shirts...
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▄███▄ █████████▄▄▄ ▐██▌ ANSi·JED
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Artwork
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Some really nice NFO graphics dug out from the 16colo.rs archives.
2001/sac-21/frx-stc1.asc
<sac>
2010/chemical.reaction.ascii.allergic.artpack.25-cro/cpn-lt.asc
<cro>
2000/cro0600/ZNT-HZRD.ASC
<cro>
Syncopy / H7
<2021/fire-34/H7-SYNCP.ASC>
Noir / tnt & mx & iks
<2021/impure80/tnt&mx&iks-noir.asc>
Ramseis / iks
<2022/impure81/iks-ramseis.asc>
Legions ARK / h7
<2014/break_05/h7-lark.nfo>
Adversity / Ferrex
<2000/sac-20/Frx-Avt1.asc>
SAC / mydknight & ferrex
<2009/sac-36/sac.nfo>
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