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Durdraw – ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems durdraw.org

farcitizenan hour ago

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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Fnoord2 hours ago

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

utternerd3 hours ago

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.

roskoalexey3 hours ago

What happened? I can't find any info

utternerd2 hours ago

If I link to any articles about it, I dox him unfortunately and I'd prefer not to. I was friends with cmang from our pre-teen days, and we were both heavily involved in the ansi/ascii scene. I'm sure there's still some here who remember him from efnet, or other places.

john_strinlai2 hours ago

>If I link to any articles about it, I dox him unfortunately and I'd prefer not to.

thats admirable, and i am certainly not telling you to do otherwise.

but i will point out that they have written out their full name and state on their github, patreon, and buymeacoffee.

utternerd6 minutes ago

I didn't notice that but you're correct, and that does change the calculus. In that case: https://www.mctxsheriff.org/news_detail_T6_R1333.php

Fnoordan hour ago

If a programmer ends up in jail, it is kind of important to know why, so we can assess if we want to run/use their software. So without writing the details I found out, the alleged crime (if it is the same person) is a crime we as society disagree with, very much. But it isn't related to cybercrime in a sense where it can hurt this software project directly.

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kaddar2 hours ago

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.

reconnecting2 hours ago

Actually, very cool editor. Perhaps only eraser is missing?

phlipski3 hours ago

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

themafia3 hours ago

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

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