I was able to get the smaller ships into paint just using a screenshot of the text file and pasting it. Then you can crop by draging the edges in or modify the attributes to get a 128x128 bitmap without changing the image at all. The problem is whith the larger ships they don't fit on a 128 square so you have to do some reducing. That's when it got jumbled up.
Someone might have a more sophisticated imaging software that can reduce them without distorting the image. Or you'd have to go into paint and create them on a smaller scale by painting individual pixels. It wouldn't be true text ASCII, but it would look like it.
Probably more work than it's worth, unless someone was suficently ammused with the idea to put the effort into doing it.
Oh, wait. You might be able to open the text ASCII files using word or something that can reduce the onsceen image without distorting it then take a screen shot of that and paste it into paint. I'll have to give that a try.
EDIT: Yeah, that worked to a point. It's certainly less distorted than resizing it in paint. It's recognizable as the baseship. But it lost a lot of detail.
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