40 points by caminanteblanco 5 hours ago | 6 comments
Fnoord 3 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

esseph 11 minutes ago
#ansi on efnet was around for a VERY long time... wonder if it still is
reconnecting 2 hours ago
farcitizen 3 hours 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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utternerd 4 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.
icecheese 10 minutes ago
That's not true at all. I know him, too. He is offline, not in jail, but plans to be back online at some point. He was acquitted of the charges you referenced. The report you linked is also not accurate about the charges. (Believe it or not, cops lie.)
roskoalexey 4 hours ago
What happened? I can't find any info
utternerd 4 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_strinlai 3 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.

utternerd 1 hour 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
owlninja 18 minutes ago
This certainly changes things...
Fnoord 3 hours 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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kaddar 4 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.

reconnecting 3 hours ago
Actually, very cool editor. Perhaps only eraser is missing?
kaddar 49 minutes ago
Ooh good point, let me think about this one, it's kinda tricky to imagine what erasing means on ASCII tiles, (I use undo and just overwrite when needed) I think it would basically be a secondary pen tool with a different setting in it, like procreate, basically?
phlipski 4 hours ago
Brings back lots of good memories of my middle-school and high-school BBS DaYZ!
themafia 4 hours ago
The purest form of nostalgia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw