Durdraw – ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems
caminanteblanco
57 points
23 comments
March 09, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (6 comments)
utternerd
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.
themafia
The purest form of nostalgia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw
phlipski
Brings back lots of good memories of my middle-school and high-school BBS DaYZ!
kaddar
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.
Fnoord
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
farcitizen
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.