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Software used to create ASCII Art. No other kind of software should be listed here. For any other software have a look in the Computers/Software.

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• AA-project

  http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/
  History of AA-project and a gallery.

• Ajax ANSI Art Player

  http://ansiartplayer.appspot.com/
  JavaScript based ANSI viewer (no server language required).

• Alan's IOCCC Entry

  http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/ioccc/
  Spin 3D shapes into ASCII art.

• Ansilove

  http://www.ansilove.org/
  Ansilove is a set of tools to convert ANSI and others text file formats into PNG images, supporting ANSI, PCBoard, Binary, ADF, IDF, TUNDRA, TND, and XBiN.

• Artist Mode for Emacs

  http://www.lysator.liu.se/~tab/artist/
  Artist is an Emacs lisp package that allows you to draw lines, rectangles, squares, poly-lines, ellipses and circles by using your mouse and/ or keyboard.

• Ascgen dotNET

  http://ascgendotnet.jmsoftware.co.uk/
  Open-source image to text converter, with support for variable width fonts.

• ASCII Art Ensemble

  http://www.desk.org/a/a/e/first.html
  Supporting the development of new free tools and software to create your own ASCII media converter.

• ASCII Art Generator

  http://www.asciiarts.net/
  Provides online tool for ASCII art from image and text. Includes animation.

• ASCII Art Studio

  http://www.torchsoft.com/en/aas_information.html
  ASCII Art editor. Supports text editing mode and graphic editing mode. View ANSI art. Convert between picture and ASCII Art, multiple undo/ redo, print.

• ASCII Editor Beta

  http://studenten.freepage.de/meph/ascii/ascii.htm
  Software to make and colour ASCII art. ASCII Editor 4.1 Beta, BMP2ASCII converter, ANSI viewer.

• ASCII GCTB

  http://t2eservo.blogspot.com/2011/12/ascii-gctb-game-cheat-text-builder-v110.html
  Suited to creating any ASCII text file (NFO, DIZ, or TXT). The program uses multiple inputs, edit boxes, templates, project files, and a coding syntax to create any design.

• ASCII Jam

  http://artcontext.net/act/01/asciiJam/
  A free online ASCII graphics editor with private and groupware modes. Create color and traditional ASCII pictures and export to PDF and HTML formats. Java enabled browser required.

• ASCII Mailer

  http://jamian.net/asciimailer/
  Sends the recipient an ASCII art picture with a personalized message. The idea came from a REXX program called Oi.

• ASCII Pumper by Lampiasis

  http://code.google.com/p/asciipumper/
  Offers an open source program which requires the .NET Framework 2.0 to colorize ASCII art with mIRC color codes.

• Asciiart.club

  http://asciiart.club/
  Free, online ASCII art generator. Features include drag-and-drop image loading, various character selections, color modes, and output formats including html, bbcode, and an easy-to-share image.

• Asciifier

  http://www.chaucery.com/fun/asciifier/
  Convert an image, or all the images within a web page, into a pixel-perfect copy made only of text.

• Asciimator

  http://www.asciimator.net/
  A web application which allows everybody to create ASCII animations, publish them and insert into their own web pages.

• BG ASCII

  http://mazaika.tripod.com/bgascii.html
  An interactive ASCII graphic tool. Creates pictures and artistic text made of ASCII characters. Programmed by Boris A. Glazer.

• C64 ASCII Art Editor

  http://www.radsoft.pl/en/software/#c64aae
  An editor using PETSCII character set; working on layers to create animations.

• Characterizer

  http://www.aolej.com/free.html#Chara
  Freeware "One form" application for converting images to ASCII text (ASCII art).

• Divxmania Image Artworks

  http://pic2text.divxmania.it/
  An online script that convert any given image in HTML/ ASCII text.

• EDASCII

  http://www.naskita.com/linux/edascii/edascii.shtml
  EDASCII is an ASCII art editor for Linux. It allows a fast and easy manipulation of ASCII drawings.

• Email Effects

  http://www.sigsoftware.com/emaileffects/
  A powerful GUI ASCII art editor for Windows or Macintosh, including picture and table conversion and Figlet support.

• FABS - Flexible ASCII Banner Software

  http://www.angelfire.com/il/fabs/
  FABS is a program for making banners, except it uses ASCII characters for the fonts. Sort of like Figlet program turned sideways.

• GIF2TXT

  http://www.degraeve.com/gif2txt.shtml
  Convert gifs into ASCII pictures. Script to use online, not a download.

• Image2Ascii Competition 2001

  http://www.jave.de/image2ascii/competition2001/index.html
  From a discussion in alt.ascii-art. The intention is to compare different image2ascii converters and also to see how ASCII artists do that kind of conversion by hand.

• IMG2ASCII

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/img2ascii/
  A PHP program, that generates ASCII images from JPG, GIF or PNG images. There are several options to alter the generated output, such as color, inversed color, font sizes, background color, line height or letter spacing.

• iNFekt for Windows

  https://infekt.ws/
  Free, open source application for viewing and presenting NFO files. Includes documentation, screenshots and download links.

• Jave

  http://www.jave.de/
  Free java ASCII versatile editor. Rather than for editing texts, it is intended for drawing simple diagrams by using ASCII characters.

• Magic ASCII Studio

  http://www.xoyosoft.com/mas
  An ASCII art generation platform. You can make ASCII art words, photos and animations. Take an image and process it to an HTML, RTF or BMP file.

• MasterVB: ASCII Art Generator

  http://ascii.mastervb.net/
  Generate ASCII art from image and text.

• NFO Reader

  http://www.nforeader.com/
  A free viewer for NFO files. Support for ANSI and ASCII art.

• NFO Viewer

  http://otsaloma.github.io/nfoview/
  A simple, open source viewer for NFO files, which are ASCII art in the CP437 codepage, mainly for Unix like operating systems.

• Pic2ascii

  http://www.pizzinini.net/?category=8&item=40&language=en
  Designed to transform bitmap images to ASCII, text art.

• Picoe Software: Pablo Draw

  http://picoe.ca/products/pablodraw/
  An open source ANSI and ASCII text art editor/ viewer. Works with Linux, Mac OS or Windows.

• Pixelhaufen: ASCII Art

  https://sites.google.com/site/englishphotoshopplugin/
  ASCII Art plugin for Photoshop or Gimp.

• QQPR: ASCII Animator

  http://www.qqpr.com/
  Free software to convert GIF image to animated ASCII art.

• Text Art.io

  http://textart.io/
  ASCII tools like figlet generator, image2ascii, cowsay in one place. This site also hosts an ASCII art collection. An ASCII art API as a REST service is also offered.

• Text Crayon

  http://www.textcrayon.net/en/
  Free online ASCII art tool. This feature works like tracing paper.

• Tribute to Text Mode Games

  http://www.textmodegames.com/
  Virtual museum for games using only 16 colors and the 255 symbols in the IBM-extended ASCII character set. Download, play, and admire these gems from a simpler time in computing.

• ULTed

  http://www.ultsoftware.com/ulted.htm
  A utility program for drawing and colorizing ASCII art.

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