"More banners than you can shake a stick at."
An overview of DOOM ASCII banners
The addition of my (now obsolete) work email address to the DOOM FAQ resulted inquite a few mails throughout the following years, generally fallinginto two categories: requests for permission to use the big logoelsewhere, and requests for other ASCII images related to DOOM.My response to the former type had to be negative, but I usuallyproposed the applicant created his own ASCII image specific to hisdocument/list/utility/whatever. Several of these exchanges then endedup in the latter category, with me creating a new DOOM-related logoor banner ;-)
One of the first was James Dicke, asking for a banner for his Deathmatch WAD Ranking list. I offered two, of which he chose the first:
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Jason Lynch worked on a DOOM II Modem Contacts list in Winter1994/95, but as far as I know never released it. So the two samples Isent him weren't published:
______ _____ _____ __ ___ _______ ___ __ _____ _____ _____ __ ___| __ \ _ | _ | \ / | \_____/ / \ | \ / | _ | __ \ ___| \ / || | \ | | | | | | | . V . | || || <-_ _-~->| . V . | | | | | | | |__ | . V . || | / | \_/ | \_/ | |\ /| | || || \ ~ / | |\ /| | \_/ | |/ /| __|| |\ /| || |/ / \ / \ /| | V | | || || | | V | |\ /| / \ |___| | V | || ' / \_/ \_/ \_| | | ||_|| CONTACT | | |_/ \_/ |__/ \___/\_| | ||__/ \_| /_____\ L I S T |_/ \_|______ _____ _____ __ ___ ___ __ _____ _____ _____ __ ___| __ \ _ | _ | \ / |<-~-_-~-_-~~\ \ | \ / | _ | __ \ ___| \ / || | \ | | | | | | | . V . | _______ /~\/ _->| . V . | | | | | | | |__ | . V . || | / | \_/ | \_/ | |\ /| | \_____/ \__-~ / | |\ /| | \_/ | |/ /| __|| |\ /| || |/ / \ / \ /| | V | | | | | | | V | |\ /| / \ |___| | V | || ' / \_/ \_/ \_| | | |_|_| CONTACT | | |_/ \_/ |__/ \___/\_| | ||__/ \_| /_____\ L I S T |_/ \_| |
During the Summer and Fall of 1994 I programmed DMPSMU, the DOOMPostScript Maps Utility, and naturally had to create my own bannerfor it :-)
______ _____ _____ __ ___ DMPSMU ___ __ ___ ______ ____| __ \ | _ | | _ | | \ / | PostScript | \ / | / _ \ | ___ \ / __|| | \ | | | | | | | | | || \/ . | %% %% !! | . \/ || / /_\ \ | |_/ / { {_| | / | | \_/ | | \_/ | ||\ /| | %% % !! | |\ /|| | _ | | __/ \__ \| |/ / \ / \ / || \/ | | % %% !! | | \/ || | | | | | | __ \ \| ' / \_/ \_/ \| | | %% %% !! | | |/ \_| |_/ \_| \ \_/ /|__/ \_| Utility. |_/ \___/ |
Slightly different again was the banner for Jan-Albert van Ree's DOOM EditingGuide, created in Spring 1996:
_______ _____ _____ __ ___ _____________ _____ _____ _____ _ _ ______| ___ \ _ | _ | \ / | | ____| _ \_ _|_ _|_ _| \ | | ___ \| | \ | | | | | | | . V . | | |__ | | | | | | | | | | | \| | | \/| | / | \_/ | \_/ | |\ /| | | __| | | | | | | | | | | | . ` | | ___| | / / \ / \ /| | V | | | | | |/ / _| |_ | | _| |_| |\ | | \ \| `' / \_/ \_/ \_| | | | |____|___/ \___/ |_| \___/\_| \_| \__| ||___/ and DOOM II \_| \_____/ G U I D E \_____/ |
On a smaller scale, I made a logo for my RGCDFAQ, still posted weekly to the rec.games.computer.doom.* newsgroups since December 1994,which was derived from an earlier logo by Jeremy Radwan createdfor John Van Essen's old Mini-FAQ that was postedin 1994 to alt.games.doom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action. Here they are back to back forcomparison:
______ ______ ______ ____ ___\ _ \ / __ \ / __ \ \ \/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |/ / \ \/ / \ \/ / \ | | | | / \ / \ / \| | | | / \__/ \__/ | | | / \ | |/ Mini-FAQ \| | ______ ______ ______ _______\ _ \ / __ \ / __ \ \ __ \ | | | | | | |_| | | |_| | | \ | | |_| | | | ____ | | | | | | | / \ \\ / \ \___, | \ | | | |\ \ \ / \ / | \ | | | | \_\ __ \__/ _ \__/ _ `\ \/ | | | |_ /_\ / \ \ / |/ | | | \_X \_/ |
Finally, drifting into Quake territory :-), I was quite eager to manuallycreate a big ASCII logo for it once it was released, but because of itscurvy nature that turned out unfeasible. Instead, I relied on technologyand took a version of the Quake logo (quakelo.jpg from the qgraphcs.zipcollection that existed on id'sftp server for some time - local copy),converted it to monochrome .gif, reduced it to 25% and converted it toASCII using gifscii.The result looked quite ragged, but was used in July 1996 in TomWheeley's Quake Mini-FAQ nonetheless. It was later manually touched up by Kyle Hofmann and used in TobyGoldstone's Quake FAQ,and that's the version I'd like to include here:
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Of course, there are more cool DOOM ASCII logos and banners out there,but I'd just like to mention the big DEU5 logo here, and you'll have to hunt down the others yourself ifso inclined.