How to view ANSI art files on Linux and/or OSX?
reddit / bbs

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treetrouble · 2012-05-27 19:04

I have a bunch of old school BBS-related ANSI art that I'd like to
check out.  "cat" in OSX seems to get the colors right but not the
upper ASCII characters.  I believe the files were encoded in DOS as
per the usual at the time.

Any idea how to configure this? (or convert the files to another
format?)

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treetrouble · 2012-05-27 19:34

follow up: I wound up using [DOSBox](http://www.dosbox.com), it worked
as-is using the DOS *type* command

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[deleted] · 2012-05-30 01:37

> Any idea how to configure this? (or convert the files to another
format?)

Actually, yes.  My terminal emulator [qodem](http://qodem.sf.net) can
do this for you, using any version since 0.2-ish (I think).  Create a
phonebook entry using the LOCAL method and ANSI emulation and CP437
codepage (or whatever the files are in - CP850, 1250, etc.).
"Connect" and qodem will spawn a shell, then type 'cat filename" to
see it in its DOS-era glory.  To see it yourself you'll need a UTF-8
capable terminal - Terminal.app on OSX does nicely, as do most modern
terminals (uxterm, konsole, gnome-terminal) under Linux.

To convert your files to another format, you can open a capture file
and use HTML as the save format.  This is actually how I converted the
Qmodem^TM user's guide into HTML format on the qodem homepage.

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dedc · 2012-08-30 13:01

https://github.com/jcs/ansiterm

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snoozerd · 2012-08-31 19:01

http://picoe.ca/products/pablodraw/