[HN Gopher] Durdraw - ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems
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Durdraw - ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems
Author : caminanteblanco
Score : 26 points
Date : 2026-03-09 18:59 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (durdraw.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (durdraw.org)
| utternerd wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| What happened? I can't find any info
| utternerd wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| > _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 wrote:
| 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.
| utternerd wrote:
| 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
| themafia wrote:
| The purest form of nostalgia:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw
| phlipski wrote:
| Brings back lots of good memories of my middle-school and high-
| school BBS DaYZ!
| kaddar wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Actually, very cool editor. Perhaps only eraser is missing?
| Fnoord wrote:
| 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.
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| [1] https://archive.org/details/aciddraw
| reconnecting wrote:
| https://www.acid.org/apps/apps.html
| farcitizen wrote:
| 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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