Stumbled across "Whispers in the Moss" today, a JRPG written in QBasic that uses a unique ANSI art style. The author had been working at it sporadically for about 12 years but finally shipped it in April 2024. A really neat find!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETpK9IJlacA

I also liked this write-up from the author about their experiences trying to publish on Steam / do marketing / sharing sales numbers etc
https://www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/comments/1rvasgj/i_spent_12_years_making_an_ultraniche_qbasic_jrpg/

#textmode #ansi #qbasic #indiegame

dON'T pANiC - iT'S gRAVY tRAiN tIME! (2026-05-02) - 5/2/2026, 7:56:28 PM

https://pt.erb.pw/w/sdE68SdxHnvJxdBJAthbea

For the last 25 years, Barren Realms Elite (BRE) has been frozen in amber, with the same ANSI title screen.

But it was preceded by _lots_ of other designs from 1992-97.

I put together a gallery of 14 of these forgotten screens:

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/05/02/the-many-ansi-title-screens-of-barren-realms-elite/

I hope you'll enjoy revisiting the changing looks of a classic BBS door game.

#bbs #retrocomputing #retrogaming #InternetHistory #history #vintagecomputing #ansiart #ansi #textmode

https://blog.gslin.org/archives/2026/05/02/13022/bash-zsh-%e7%9a%84-ansi-c-quoting/

Bash/Zsh 的 ANSI-C quoting

#ansi #bash #c #posix #quoting #security #shell #string #zsh

dON'T pANiC - iT'S gRAVY tRAiN tIME! (2026-05-09)

https://pt.erb.pw/w/i7aTeHRX36CURn5558H8xF

#moebius #ansi and #ascii creation tool, now has 256/true colour support plus a bunch of optimisations including all dependencies bumped to the latest they can go currently.

I forked moebius because it was no longer being maintained (since like 2023), needed some new features and some optimisations.

https://github.com/christiansacks/moebius/releases/latest/

A modernized converter from #PNG images to #ANSI sequences has just been released.

The project sat on #github for 11 years until I decided to use it and found out it wasn't working. So it has been modernized and packaged as a Deb package for easy installation.

https://github.com/Vitexus/ansir

Get #Debian & #Ubuntu packages at https://repo.vitexsoftware.com/

#Convertor #Terminal #OpenSource

https://github.com/xsawyerx/curl-doom #HTTP server rendering #DOOM frames into #ANSI half-blocks, streamed to the terminal over HTTP with #curl

No install, no dependencies except #curl and #bash ( #linux )

Being #blind, and in any case working mostly from an #ALpineLinux terminal screen, I mostly use #vim . I might have chosen neovim but I kept hitting the strange small incompatibilities. One of them is if neovim detects a 256 color term, it uses it by default,. The problem is there is no option to disable and force #ansi color use.

I had spent years tuning an ansi color them that actually works for my eyes so I can vaguely see differences and have some idea what I am typing. The Alpine vim packages are a bit borked, though, because they don't support a proper #sql syntax module, but some shim for oracle that is incomplete. So I cannot use it to highlight sql in C++ strings like I can with Debian.

Tooling for blind use can at times be as frustrating as being blind.