Links

Places worth going instead of here. Nothing is affiliated with anything.

The artscene

• 16colo.rs — the artpack archive. Packs, artists, groups, and the actual .ANS files, browsable.
• artpacks.org — the other archive, with a different index of the same history.
• ASCII Art Archive — plain ASCII by category, and a good place to see how a style develops.
• artscene.textfiles.com — the scene's own papers, groups and ephemera.
• ascii.textfiles.com — collected ASCII, mostly from the BBS era.

Documentation worth keeping

• SAUCE specification — the 128 bytes that carry an artist's name to the present day.
• textfiles.com — twenty years of what people actually wrote to each other before the web.
• Oldschool PC Font Resource — the hardware fonts, documented and recovered, with their licences stated.

Tools

• Moebius — the modern ANSI editor.
• PabloDraw — the other one, with collaborative editing.
• Durdraw — ASCII and ANSI editing in a terminal, Unicode aware.
• AnsiLove — renders .ANS to images and reads SAUCE. Used here in development to check widths.
• FIGlet — large letters out of ordinary ones.

Terminals in browsers

• ghostty-web — Ghostty's engine, compiled for the browser.
• wterm — a terminal component built around running processes in a page.
• just-bash — a Bash interpreter in JavaScript, which is a different problem than it sounds like.

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