Durdraw – ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems

durdraw.org

26 points

caminanteblanco

4 hours ago


20 comments

farcitizen an 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.

utternerd 3 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.

  • roskoalexey 3 hours ago

    What happened? I can't find any info

    • utternerd 2 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 2 hours ago
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        >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.

        • Fnoord an hour ago
          2 more

          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.

kaddar 2 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 2 hours ago

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

phlipski 3 hours ago

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