ANSI editors

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‘Modern’ editors

• PabloDraw
  Pablodraw (based on Mono) is working but no longer fully maintained, it has been the de facto standard editor for over a decade.

  platforms: Windows/Mac/Linux
  homepage: http://picoe.ca/products/pablodraw/
  public collaboration servers: https://16colo.rs/servers/

• Moebius
  Moebius (based on Electron) is a newer editor with unseen features like halfblock brushes

  platforms: Windows/Mac/Linux
  homepage: https://github.com/blocktronics/moebius
  public collaboration servers: https://16colo.rs/servers/

Online editors

• Sixteen Colors draw: http://sixteencolors.github.io/js-textmode-editor/
• ANSI edit: http://andyherbert.github.io/ansiedit/public/index.html

DOS editors

You’d typically run these oldschool editor in DOSbox or DOSbox-X. Note that there might be extra configuration required to make 9px fonts working and/org legacy aspect mode workin in DOSbox.

• TheDraw: The godfather of ANSI editors and still the best for ansimation: http://www.syaross.org/thedraw/
• ACiDdraw: http://www.acid.org/apps/apps.html
• Empathy: ANSI editor with custom font feature to create XBIN’s https://files.scene.org/view/graphics/groups/acid/empd-100.zip

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There is an “unofficial build” of PabloDraw by necro that contains some minor improvements but has also been built against more recent mono libraries. It’s more stable on recent operating systems and apparently fixed memory leak issues on MacOS. The binaries are available here: Necro's Pablodraw builds

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A new official build of PabloDraw is due in a few weeks. It will be updated for .NET 5.0 and run on MacOS BigSur. It will run on Gtk+3 and no longer require mono on Linux.

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Durdraw is a Linux editor with a focus on ANSI/ASCII animation