UPDATE Summer 2025: I've released a new version of Moebius XBIN! This guide is completely rewritten for it.
MoebiusXBIN
MoebiusXBIN is an ASCII & text-mode art editor for MacOS, Linux and Windows, with support for custom fonts and colors.
Download
To download, click the link below and choose the package suitable for your OS.
Download the latest packages from Github
If you have suggestions or find any bugs let me know! You can email me at [email protected] or make an issue at the Github page.
Introduction
Traditionally ASCII art is made in plain text, and displayed in text-mode using character sets stored in the ROM of computer graphics adapters. This has carried on to modern text-mode art editors, which are designed to produce files compatible with real retro hardware, even if they're rarely viewed with them.
The editor for making PC-ASCII, ANSI art , and Amiga ASCII art is nowadays PabloDraw, and more recently Moebius. Those editors come with a few standard IBM PC and Amiga fonts, but which font is used to view them is wholly dependent on the viewer's system. There is no way to specify which font should be used to view the artwork (other than maybe writing something like "please view with font X" at the top of the artwork).
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