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AnsiLove/C

AnsiLove is an ANSI and ASCII art to PNG converter, allowing to convert ANSI and artscene-related file formats into PNG images, supporting ANSI (.ANS), PCBoard (.PCB), Binary (.BIN), Artworx (.ADF), iCE Draw (.IDF), Tundra (.TND) and XBin (.XB) formats.

It creates size optimized 4-bit PNG files and supports SAUCE (Standard Architecture for Universal Comment Extensions), 80x25 and 80x50 PC fonts (including all the 14 MS-DOS charsets), Amiga fonts, and iCE colors.

This is a complete rewrite of AnsiLove/PHP in the C programming language.

Experimental seccomp support is available for selected architectures and can be enabled by setting the ENABLE_SECCOMP variable to 1 when invoking CMake.

Specs

AnsiLove/C is strictly using the C99 standard to achieve high portability to all major operating systems. Supported compilers are GCC and Clang, others may work but aren't tested. We use Linux and OpenBSD for AnsiLove/C development.

Why C?

There were many reasons, most notably PHP interpreter independence and performance. A solid C foundation is just perfect for creating libraries and it can easily be embedded into applications. We already mentioned portability. What else? We wanted evolution. AnsiLove/C should not be understood as a port. It takes many different approaches (like processing binary font dumps or generating @2x Retina images), it is overall improved and introduces new features. While results tend to be the same, the codebase does not have much in common with it's ancestor.

Dependencies

AnsiLove/C uses the CMake build system and requires the libansilove library and header files.

Installing dependencies OpenBSD: pkg_add -r cmake NetBSD: pkgin install cmake FreeBSD: pkg install cmake macOS: brew install cmake Alpine Linux: apk add cmake gcc make musl-dev Debian / Ubuntu / Mint: apt-get install build-essential cmake Fedora: dnf install cmake gcc make Solus: eopkg install -c system.devel

Binary packages for libansilove are available on OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Debian, Ubuntu, and Solus.

On other systems, libansilove has to be installed manually.

Compiling

mkdir build cd build cmake .. make

Packages

Ansilove packages are available for: OpenBSD NetBSD FreeBSD Debian Ubuntu openSUSE Solus Gentoo Homebrew Guix Nix

Features

The following formats are supported: .ANS - ANSi (ANSI escape sequences: ANSI X3.64 standard), including PabloDraw 24-bit color sequences .PCB - PCBoard Bulletin Board System (BBS) own file format .BIN - Binary format (raw memory copy of text mode video memory) .ADF - Artworx format, supporting custom character sets and palettes .IDF - iCE Draw format, supporting custom character sets and palettes .TND - TundraDraw format, supporting 24-bit color mode .XB - The eXtended Binary XBin format, supporting custom character sets and palettes

Files with custom suffix default to the ANSi renderer (e.g. ICE or CIA).