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Alan's IOCCC Entry
Spin 3D shapes into ASCII art.
http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/ioccc/

Alpha in ASCII
Generates online ASCII images. A lot of options and different types can bring intesting results.
http://alpha.poelzi.org

Alternate's ASCII Artist
A tiny Windows program which can convert Windows bitmaps into ASCII art. Very minimal interface. Full Win32 SDK C++ Source code is Included (Open-Source under the zlib/libpng license).
http://alterlife.org/asciiartist/

AnsiPaint
An ANSI/ ASCII editor. Binary download with sample fonts. Distributed under GPL (free sources).
http://luks.host.sk/ansipnt.php3

Artist Mode for Emacs
Artist is an Emacs lisp package that allows you to draw lines, rectangles, squares, poly-lines, ellipses and circles by using your mouse and/ or keyboard.
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~tab/artist/

ascflip
A little utility which can flip ASCII pictures horizontally, vertically, diagonally, or any of the above combined, rearranging the characters and optionally remapping them to their closest flipped equivalents.
http://vyznev.net/ascii/ascflip/

ASCII Art Ensemble
Supporting the development of new free tools and software to create your own ASCII media converter.
http://www.desk.org/a/a/e/first.html

ASCII Art Studio
ASCII Art editor. Supports text editing mode and graphic editing mode. View ANSI art. Convert between picture and ASCII Art, multiple undo/ redo, print.
http://www.torchsoft.com/en/aas_information.html

ASCII Editor Beta
Software to make and colour ASCII art. ASCII Editor 4.1 Beta, BMP2ASCII converter, ANSI viewer.
http://studenten.freepage.de/meph/ascii/ascii.htm

ASCII Generator
ASCGEN: The ultimate in image to text conversion programs. The free unrestricted beta version of the program is now available for download.
http://www.users.totalise.co.uk/~wardog/

ASCII Jam
A free online ASCII graphics editor with private and groupware modes. Create color and traditional ASCII pictures and export to PDF and HTML formats. Java enabled browser required.
http://artcontext.net/act/01/asciiJam/

ASCII Mailer
Sends the recipient an ASCII art picture with a personalized message. The idea came from a REXX program called Oi.
http://jamian.net/asciimailer/

ASCII Mapmaker
A program that is primarily meant for builders and coders of MUDs, but is also a nice program to use to create ASCII maps.
http://www.stud.ux.his.no/~austad/mud/mapmaker/

ASCII Pic
Program to convert bitmaps (*.bmp) and JPEGs (*.jpg) into plain text files (*.txt).
http://www.ykwong.com/asciipic.html

ASCIIfier
Allows you to upload images and turn them into ASCII art at the click of a button.
http://asciifier.co.uk

Asciimator
A web application which allows everybody to create ASCII animations, publish them and insert into their own web pages.
http://www.asciimator.net

BG_ASCII
An interactive ASCII graphic tool. Creates pictures and artistic text made of ASCII characters. Programmed by Boris A. Glazer.
http://mazaika.tripod.com/bgascii.html

Bmp2Ansi
A freeware bmp to ANSI converter. This program is useful when you want to create a logo for nfo-files.
http://home.student.utwente.nl/j.oortwijn/products/software/bmp2ansi/index.html

Characterizer
Freeware 'One form' application for converting images to ASCII text (ASCII art).
http://www.aolej.com/free.html#Chara

Code is My Life: ASCII Arts
Compose own your ASCII art by uploading an image, which is then automatically transformed to text art.
http://www.codeismylife.com/ascii-art/