I’ve been working on an ANSI viewer for Linux, as I wanted an easy way to look through ANSI files while working on setting up a new Enigma½ BBS.
That turned into ReelANSi v0.1.
It’s still early in development, but it’s working well enough now that I thought I’d share it here and hopefully get some useful feedback.
The focus is pretty simple: browse local folders of ANSI art, render it accurately, and play ANSI/ansimation at classic BBS speeds. It currently supports .ANS, .ASC, .FLP, and FILE_ID.DIZ, along with SAUCE and iCE colors.
I’ve been doing a lot of side-by-side comparisons with the renders here on 16colo.rs, particularly while working through ANSI color and rendering behavior.
If anyone wants to throw some ugly edge cases at it, point out something that looks wrong, or suggest files that are particularly good at breaking ANSI viewers, I’d love the input.
GitHub: GitHub - Madp03t/ReelANSi: ReelANSi is a lightweight Linux viewer for ANSI and textmode art, built for accurate rendering, smooth browsing, and classic BBS-style playback. Point it at a file or a folder and enjoy the art. ReelANSi is strictly a viewer, not an editor. · GitHub
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Cool app, thanks! Is it possible to make it so that when you’re playing a whole folder, files all “Play” instead of having to play them individually?
Appreciate you checking out ReelANSi!
Your suggestion is now part of v0.2, which I just released. The new Autoplay feature plays every file in a folder at the selected baud rate, with a configurable delay between files.
I’ve also added static PNG/WebP export and animated WebP export, along with a few other improvements.
Hope you enjoy the update!
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Just tested it, amazing! This is great to watch a whole pack! Thank you for the update
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