![]() Therefore, it was not destined to become standardized throughout the non-English world. The ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) code page 437 character set was originally designed by IBM for the earliest DOS PCs so many years ago. ![]() Because of this, ANSI art was much less common, and getting ANSI art to display correctly on a Windows 95 PC often proved more difficult, leading to a decline of such art in NFO files. If the user's computer wasn't already configured to load the ANSI.SYS driver, viewing ANSI art required reconfiguring and rebooting. These animations, however, required ANSI.SYS to be loaded by the DOS shell. īefore Windows 95 was introduced, NFO files also sometimes used ANSI-escape sequences to generate animated ASCII art ( ANSI art). More than forty thousand demoscene productions have an NFO file next to the program file. The Humble Guys later became a demogroup, thus bringing the. Hence its strong presence on Usenet newsgroups that carry binaries and on P2P file trading networks. The perpetuation of this file extension legacy was carried on by warez groups which followed after THG and is still in use to this day. This file was used in lieu of the more common README.TXT or README.1ST file names. The first use came in 1990 on the THG release of the PC game Bubble Bobble. Such organizations are also known as warez groups or crack groups. BBS", to establish distribution immediately. The THG group would first upload their package to their world headquarters, "Candyland BBS" or later "The P.I.T.S. NFO files were first introduced by "Fabulous Furlough" of the elite PC warez organization called The Humble Guys, or THG. Unlike README files, NFO files often contain elaborate ANSI art. NFO files are also often found in demoscene productions, where the respective groups include them for credits, contact details, and the software requirements. ![]() If the NFO file is for software, product installation notes can also be found. The information may include authorship and license information. NFO files usually contain release information about the media. 2.1 Usage of NFO files in publishing of warez.* Display episodes in aired date order (so you can see where the specials fit in) * Export to HTML TV details with customizable templates. * Automatically rename episodes using set or custom parameters * Include 'ExtraThumbs' & ‘ExtraFanart’ (For skins that support this function) * Saving of Media Tags in NFO * Display episodes missing from your collection. * Download artwork from Fanart.Tv * Create screen shot if download is not available. * Download and select poster for Show and individual seasons. * Download actor images from either TVDb or IMDb. * Choice of inbuilt TVDb scraper or XBMC TVDb scraper * Automatically download information for TV Shows and episodes from TVDb. * Export to HTML movie details & artwork, with customizable templates. * Include 'ExtraThumbs' & ‘ExtraFanart’ (For skins that support this function, movies need to be in individual folders) * Auto-Rename using custom or set parameters * Auto-Rename movie's Folder using custom or set parameters * Search and browse movies using a selection of filters and searches. * Download artwork from Fanart.Tv * Download movie trailers from IMDb & Yahoo! * View and edit all obtained data. * Download movie posters from any of IMDb, TMDb, IMPA, and MPDB. * Scrape movie information from IMDB using the inbuilt scraper * Scrape movie information from TMDB using XBMC scraper. TV Support will follow later * Scrape Blu-Ray Folder structure. * XBMC Movies Link - Changes in MC update XBMC. Media Companion Currently supports Movies and TV Shows. The information collected includes such things as posters, backdrops, plot summary,actors and actor images, ratings etc, and are placed with your video files for easy addition to your library.
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