14 DAY TRIAL // ASCII Art, a powerful generator that converts digital pictures into text art, has been released in the Mac App Store at an introductory price of $9.99. The software regularly costs $19.99.
The app can output art to both black/white text and full color, according to Nuclear Nova Software, the developer.
Exporting abilities include plain text, html, tif, and rtf files, while the user-editable character set adjusts the available characters to be used.
With a maximum character width option, users can control the finished product size.
Thanks to real time previews, ASCII Art users can get the best results in the shortest time possible.
According to Nuclear Nova Software, compatible source images include jpeg, png, gif, bmp, psd, tif, tga, jpg, tiff and others, while output quality greatly depends on the input file.
“Often images such as clip art work better than sources such as digital pictures,” the developer notes. “High image contrast and a clean white background always helps. Your milage may vary, experiment!” Nuclear Nova Software says.
The application requires Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) or later to run, as well as a 1.8GHZ+ CPU (recommended), though downloading it at a discount requires Mac OS X 10.6.6.
Mac OS X 10.6.6 is the only Snow Leopard version that comes with the Mac App Store, therefore is the only version that allows downloading the discounted ASCII Art.
Nuclear Nova Software did not specify when the offer would end. Those interested in benefiting from the introductory price cut are encouraged to visit the Mac App Store soon.
ASCII Art is, in all senses, a typical entertainment program developed by a software development studio focused on games.
“At Nuclear Nova Software we are committed to creating entertaining, high quality games for the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and iPod,” the company says.
“Whether you want to play a round of golf, hunt cartoon animals, build a space colony, or relax with one of our other games, Nuclear Nova Software has got ya covered,” Nuclear Nova adds.
Visit the company here to check out its entire portfolio.