Subj : Re: png to .ans
To   : fusion
From : hollowone
Date : Sun Nov 09 2025 13:49:21

 fu> the problem is any retro enthusiast wouldn't run anything that displays
 fu> SIXEL, they'd be running Telix, QModem, BananaCom, just to name a few
 fu> DOS specific ones. they'd be more inclined to have something like 86Box
 fu> or DosBox installed specifically for this purpose, etc. there is no user
 fu> terminal in the sense you're thinking on these machines. you can't "cat"
 fu> the SIXEL file.
 fu> 

That's why I suggested writing own .exe as a client/engine to display this mag with a proper conversion handled by themselves.
I'm aware of the limit. I live in the buble I moved my telnet/bbs client to iTerm2 on MacOs which natively supports SIXEL :)

I have SIXEL for free..

but I think the core question was that you have .PNG file of certain resolution (most likely significantly higher than 80x25 limit of standard terminal and convert it smartly into ANSI art using characters available in the ASCII table + colors.

I believe that's nonsense so that's why I suggested investigating SIXEL instead. This way or another.

-h1

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