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Durdraw – ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems

https://durdraw.org/
22•caminanteblanco•3h ago

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utternerd•2h ago
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•1h ago
What happened? I can't find any info
utternerd•1h ago
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•1h ago
>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•16m ago
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.
themafia•1h ago
The purest form of nostalgia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw
phlipski•1h ago
Brings back lots of good memories of my middle-school and high-school BBS DaYZ!
kaddar•1h ago
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•51m ago
Actually, very cool editor. Perhaps only eraser is missing?
Fnoord•47m ago
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.

[1] https://archive.org/details/aciddraw

reconnecting•6m ago
https://www.acid.org/apps/apps.html
farcitizen•20m ago
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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Durdraw – ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems

https://durdraw.org/
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