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Ah, someone's never seen 8088 Corruption. The encoder was a brute-force comparison of source pixels with downscaled / blended characters in CGA's few available colors.
... wait, AAlib definitely uses shape. Is the author just new to ASCII art?
Killer effort, regardless.
When I was in my teens and twenties, I used to believe that if I thought of something that I'd never heard of before, I must have been the first person ever to come up with it.
Now that I'm older and the Internet is ubiquitous, when I have those moments I go straight to a search engine. And even if I'm not the first, I still feel pretty good about discovering whatever it is for myself.
Hell, I'm relieved when someone beat me to it. Means I can check it off my to-do list.
'I bet you could combine Wine and QEMU' was on there for a while, and oh thank god, FEX is serious business now.