[HN Gopher] Show HN: Web-based ANSI art viewer
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       Show HN: Web-based ANSI art viewer
        
       My love letter to ANSI art. Full width rendering, scrolling by baud
       rate, text is selectable, and more.  There are some example links
       at the top if you're feeling lucky.
        
       Author : lubujackson
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2026-03-10 08:40 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (sure.is)
 (TXT) w3m dump (sure.is)
        
       | lubujackson wrote:
       | Creator here - this was much more technically difficult than it
       | seems, because rendering pixel perfect backgrounds with scaling
       | width is non-obvious. Hit 'Esc' and you can set some options,
       | including changing the background pattern.
       | 
       | If you want to see a big file, I have a direct link to load the
       | Blocktronics WTF4 ANSI which is over 4000 lines:
       | https://sure.is/ansi/?wtf4=1
        
         | 0x073 wrote:
         | Wow nice. Is there a fastscroll in mobile?
        
           | lubujackson wrote:
           | On the loading page you can click the word "Esc" to open the
           | options menu and set the speed there. If you select "full
           | line render" you can then set it from .25x to 10x speed and
           | it doesn't do the character-by-character rendering.
        
             | 0x073 wrote:
             | Impossible to touch esc on mobile, maybe fat finger but it
             | just start showing the image.
        
       | raldi wrote:
       | This is very cool! And I say that as someone who was in iCE in
       | the early 1990s ;)
       | 
       | The baud scrolling and SAUCE support are nicely done, and "drag a
       | zip here" is top-tier magic, though when I tried dragging in an
       | old iCE pack's zip file, it only showed one ANSI inside there; I
       | was expecting a file picker.
       | 
       | Feature suggestions: "Show invisible text" toggle and an option
       | to switch between 16-color background mode and 8-color background
       | mode with blink support. You're already parsing the SAUCE which
       | has an "iCE colors" boolean; you can use this to control the
       | default for the latter setting.
       | 
       | Details: https://forum.16colo.rs/t/ice-colors-or-blinking-text/27
        
       | kristopolous wrote:
       | Really I'd love to see animations from
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw work.
        
       | gwbas1c wrote:
       | I love this! I ran a dial-up BBS in the 1990s and still have a
       | soft spot for ANSI. It was like looking at LiteBrite for computer
       | nerds.
       | 
       | Thanks a million!
        
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