393: ASCIIfield Mark II

From SRoMG Explained
Jump to navigationJump to search
ASCIIfield Mark II
0393.png
Made by: Colin Foster


Explanation[edit | edit source]

The first Asciifield was very simple and monochrome. This image is in color, and gives us more detail at the expense of being larger. It also uses a strip with dialogue more obviously connected to ASCII.

ASCII is a character encoding standard that tells programs to display a certain typing character when given certain data. While this is typically done in the service of text-based information, ASCII art attempts to present us with pictures using the more limited forms provided by ASCII characters.

The author writes[edit | edit source]

Unfortunately, image-to-ASCII art conversion leaves out a ton of detail, and also makes text difficult to read. Oh well.

Original strip: 1983-04-21.

Transcript[edit | edit source]

Jon: Tell me, my little wahine, what do you do? I'll bet you walk along the beach all day, then go home to your little thatched hut at night, right?
Woman: I'm a computer programmer from Cleveland.
Jon: Close. How about a date?
Garfield: He didn't even blink.