[HN Gopher] Show HN: MoebiusXBIN - ASCII and text-mode art edito...
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       Show HN: MoebiusXBIN - ASCII and text-mode art editor with custom
       font support
        
       Author : california-og
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2025-07-30 13:11 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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       | msephton wrote:
       | Very cool. The TES-SYMB5 font seems to be quite something.
        
         | WalterGR wrote:
         | Indeed. It's like a leet version of Unicode's "Symbols for
         | Legacy Computing" block.
         | 
         | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_for_Legacy_Computing
        
       | JdeBP wrote:
       | I've encountered SAUCE, long since; but the page is right. I've
       | personally never directly encountered XBIN, and it does seem that
       | it did not take off as predicted.
       | 
       | * https://acid.org/images/0896/XBIN.TXT
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       | The world does not seem to have managed to do for text (art
       | image) files what TIFF did for graphics files. Although
       | https://16colo.rs/ , recently on Hacker News
       | (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44665816) seems to be
       | getting by on just SAUCE plus FILE_ID.DIZ.
       | 
       | See https://github.com/ansilove/ansilove#features , for one
       | example of what we have instead. (-:
       | 
       | I would have quipped that someone has yet to have the idea of
       | using JSON instead of these directly-machine-readable binary
       | formats. But the DurDraw developers have indeed done that very
       | thing.
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       | * https://github.com/cmang/durdraw/blob/master/durformat.md
        
       | zzo38computer wrote:
       | I had written a program which can convert between XBIN, ANSI,
       | MZM, and other formats, including support for doorway mode in
       | ANSI files (most ANSI art programs do not support doorway mode).
       | This could be used together with MoebiusXBIN or other programs in
       | order to convert them to/from the formats that you will use with
       | other programs. (I had also considered to add a DER-based format
       | later, in case of other features wanted to be included as well,
       | such as animations, character set mapping (including mapping to
       | TRON code and to other character codes), etc; however, this might
       | or might not actually be made.)
        
       | jlundberg wrote:
       | Heikki is awesome!
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       | And be sure to check out https://16colo.rs/ as well if you are
       | into this kind of art.
       | 
       | One neat thing about XBIN btw is that it is based on what a real
       | VGA chip can do, so you can show XBIN art in text mode on a real
       | physical x86-computer. No need for computationally heavy linear
       | frame buffers here.. :)
        
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