alt.hn

3/9/2026 at 6:59:32 PM

Durdraw – ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems

 https://durdraw.org/

by caminanteblanco

3/9/2026 at 9:21:54 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

by Fnoord

3/9/2026 at 9:48:15 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.

by farcitizen

3/9/2026 at 7:59:51 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.

by utternerd

3/9/2026 at 8:21:02 PM

What happened? I can't find any info

by roskoalexey

3/9/2026 at 8:39:48 PM

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.

by utternerd

3/9/2026 at 8:54:47 PM

>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.

by john_strinlai

3/9/2026 at 9:52:55 PM

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.

by Fnoord

3/9/2026 at 10:04:22 PM

[dead]

by springtx

3/9/2026 at 8:59:24 PM

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by t0085a994

3/9/2026 at 8:50:43 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.

by kaddar

3/9/2026 at 9:17:45 PM

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

by reconnecting

3/9/2026 at 8:21:08 PM

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

by phlipski