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Durdraw – ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems

24 pointsby caminanteblancotoday at 6:59 PM12 commentsview on HN

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farcitizentoday at 9:48 PM

Love this.. I was an ANSI Artist back in the day.. Was in <ACiD>, I knew it was a matter of time before AI would make Ansi's out of Photos.

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Fnoordtoday at 9:21 PM

Back when I still made ANSI art, a couple of UNIX Ansi art editors were around, but I used ACiDDraw [1] in (probably, don't remember) Dosbox.

Kind of like I used hkSFV for a long, long time. No GUI utility came close, feature-wise. Although if you consider CLI, you can do scripting after download.

[1] https://archive.org/details/aciddraw

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utternerdtoday at 7:59 PM

Unless someone forks this project, this is the final version. The author is serving a life sentence, so I cannot imagine he will update this ever again.

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kaddartoday at 8:50 PM

I recently made an ASCII art web app:

https://textmode.cadencecode.com/

... I occasionally make dos games as a hobby, and I wanted to be able to draw some ASCII on my iPad. Kinda a niche thing but open to feedback if anyone tries it.

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phlipskitoday at 8:21 PM

Brings back lots of good memories of my middle-school and high-school BBS DaYZ!

themafiatoday at 8:13 PM

The purest form of nostalgia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw