Various Downloads - ASCII & ANSI Editors for MS DOS and Windows - Web Tools - Pixel VGA
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ACiD View 6.1 - ANSI & ASCII Viewer (PC/Win) - 226KB
ACiDView for Windows is actually one of the few tools that can display ANSI and block ASCII 100% correctly under Windows (no DOS Window). ACiDView for MS DOS was a very popular viewer back in the days. It was always distributed for free with every months ACiD art package. The DOS version of ACiDView (which has more features) does not run under Windows 2K or XP. I still recommend to use this Windows version of the tool.
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The Draw 4.61 - ASCII/ANSI Editor (PC/MS DOS) - 291KB
TheDraw is a DOS tool to create and modify ASCIIs and ANSIs, especially ANSIs and block ASCIIs which are not supported by Windows anymore. The program runs stable in a DOS Window and even the mouse is still working. I personally use TheDraw since 1992 as replacement for the crappy tool "AnsiDraw" which I have also available, if you like "pain" hehe. I never made the switch to ACiDDraw as so many others, even if it had some more features than TheDraw which was IMO superior to ACiDView at the beginning. You will probably have a bit of a hard time if DOS is completely alien to you, but give it a shot anyway. It's fun.
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Deluxe Paint II Enhanced V3.0 - Image Editor (PC/MS DOS) - 547KB
Deluxe Paint was THE pixel graphics tool on the AMIGA 500. The PC version came a bit later and development was not continued on the PC like on the Amiga, where DP made it to version 4 before it was stopped there as well. It was still ahead of its time when it came out. At that time was MS Paint for Windows 3.0 quite "hip" and "Autodesk Animator" (the maker of AutoCad) the McLaren F1 of PC pixel software. This version of Deluxe Paint is the "enhanced version" which supports "Super VGA" (256 colors BEYOND 320x200) to some degree (not really, but they made an effort). It should still run on most people's Windows XP PC.
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Deluxe Paint Animation - Image Editor (PC/MS DOS) - 374KB
Deluxe Paint Animation was a special version of Deluxe Paint that supported the creation of animations in the propriatary format .ANM. It only supports the standard VGA resolution of 320x200 pixels and 256 colors. Animation features were part of the standard feature of newer versions of DP on the Amiga, which were not ported to the IBM PC.
There is a video codec for Windows that enables the playback of Deluxe Paint Animation files via Windows Media Player. You can download the Deluxe Paint Animation ANM codec here (94 KB).
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Autodesk Animator Pro - Image Editor (PC/MS DOS) - 1,100 KB
Autodesk Animator Pro is a very function rich image editor for MS DOS that also has many nice tools and functionalities to create animations (videos). The program works with GIF and PCX images and uses the videos format .FLI for the animations. The editor supports Super VGA. I believe up to a resolution of 1024x768 and 256 Colors. The animator features are limited to standard VGA as far as I can recall.
To enable the playback of .FLV video animations via Windows Media Player, you have to install a codec for FLV files. You can download two FLV codecs here (371 KB). Read the "readme.txt" file that is included in the zip archive, which explains how to install the codec on your Microsoft Windows computer.
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Ansidraw V2.4 - (very) Old ASCII/ANSI Editor (PC/MS DOS) - 20KB
I am warning you, this tool from Amrich Enterprises was written at the end of the eighties and the oldest ANSI editor I know about for the PC. I am amazed by the fact that it is still running on Windows machines almost no other tools do. Well, It was even back then when it was "new" already a pain in the butt. Note when you do ANSI. You can save an ANSI, but you can not load it. Only ASCIIs can be loaded. Nothing can be beyond 23 Lines that's all what it got. READ the main key combinations screen when the program starts. Trust me, you will "regret it" if you don't. Okay. You get out by either terminating the window :) or the very obvious and common key combination SHIFT-F10. Here are some other keyboard short-cuts that might help. I created about 10-12 ANSIs with this piece of junk until the salvation came in the form of TheDraw!
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PabloDraw V2.0.8.70. - Text Editor for Windows PC - 530KB
Who said ANSI and ASCII is dead? Well, welcome to ANSI design in Web 2.0. This WINDOWS ANSI editor works online and allows you to hook up with multiple people and mess around in the same ANSI file and chat at the same time. After the "it" or "mash"" is "done", excuse me, BETA. People often have a hard time to make sense out that online "collaboration" between the artists who are all happy about that fact hehe. I think I am too old for this, but I don't like it personally. This does not mean that it would not be perfect for you. Give it a shot.
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PabloView V0.91 - ASCII/ANSI Viewer for Windows PC - 380KB
Written by Curtis Wensley aka Eto who also wrote the currently popular Windows ANSI editor PabloDraw. The viewer supports: Ansi/Avatar/XBin/Idf/Adf/Binary/CG character files, RIP vector files and Jpeg/Gif/Png/Tiff/Bmp image files in addition to features like modem speed simulation (some ANSIs (animations) were timed for that) and VGA display modes.
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ACiDDraw V1.25 - ANSI Editor for MS DOS - 82KB
In the early ninties was the ASCII and ANSI text art scene split in half. Not really as bad as you might think though. The artists at that time either used ACiDDraw or TheDraw, the only two editiors that provided the features needed by the leading text artists. TheDraw was the older one and lead the pack for a while, but ACiDDraw catched up and became towards the end of the MS DOS and BBS realm the predominant editor. It's greatest feature was the support of virtually unlimited lines on ANSI vs TheDraw which was limited to a maximum of 100 lines. Artists that created ANSI's beyond 100 lines were rare though.
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ACiDView V4.63 - ASCII/ANSI Viewer for MS DOS - 180KB
The classic ACiD Viewer whos latest version was always delivered with each new ACiD art pack that was released. It was pretty much the standard viewer used by most people. I was unfortunately not able to get it to work properly under Windows XP. It keeps crashing. I decided to put it up for download anyway. Unless you plan to run it on an old machine or use a MS DOS emulator software like DOS BOX, download the Windows 32 version of the viewer instead (also available for download here on this site).
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Tundra Draw 0.5 Beta 1 - ANSI Editor for Windows - 4.4 MB
This fairly new editor gained some popularity, but I have to be honest, I haven't even looked at it yet. I stick to what I know, which is TheDraw for MS DOS. But this editor might be an alternative to PabloDraw for Windows which I heard from some is quite cumbersome to use.
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TetraDraw V2.0.2 - ANSI Editor Source Code - 265 KB
Code by John McCutchan. He released it under the GPL license so feel free to utilize the code as you see fit in yout own application. See the readme. file within the archive for compiling instructions.
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AnsiLove PHP 1.03 - Real Time Converter of ANSI/ASCII to PNG - 150 KB
This web script written in PHP converts ANSI and ASCII to PNG format in real-time. I use this handy tool on my website for the galleries. I don't have the images on my server, but the original ANSIs and ASCIIs which will be rendered to the browser when the user requests it.
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SyncTerm V0.9.0 Win32 - Open Source Terminal Software by Stephen Hurd - 816 KB
SyncTerm is a free terminal software client (Software that is being used to call a bulletin board system via dial up or ISDN back in the days) that supports the display of IBM low and high ASCII, ANSI-BBS, ANSI Music, Character pacing for ANSI animation, VT500 ESC[*r sequence for dynamic speed changes, CGTerm Commodore 64 PETSCII and Atari 8-bit ATASCII in different screen modes, including 80x25, 80x28, 80x43, 80x50 and 80x60, as well as over 35 fonts already provided by SyncTERM with the ability to customize fonts. It is also available for other platforms such as Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X.
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SAC Art Packs
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Welcome to the SAC - Superior Art Creations Art Packs.
Starting from the first pack, which was released in December 1994 to the last one for now, released in May 2007. Some packs have multiple ZIP files, click on the "floppy disk" icons to download the files.
This is just the quick download list of all SAC pack release. If you want to get the list of all SAC packs with file_id.diz, link to SAC.NFO files and description for each release, check out this SAC Pack Releases page.
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SAC Tools Releases
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SAC released only a few tools during the years. SAC was not a tool group. The PPE section was removed for the same reason, even if it looked like a good fit at the beginning.
The tools are nothing special and were primarily for internal use only. There are certainly better tools available from others, which do a better job, but to be consistent and to make sure that the collection is complete, did I put them up for download on the site anyway.
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SAC ANSI Factory V0.6p - ANSI/ASCII art editor for Windows.
It works, but if you look for a good editor, check the downloads further above on this page. | |
SAC View - Artpack viewer for Windows
The viewer was introduced with SAC Pack #25 and was used to show the content of the artpack on Windows PCs. If you are looking for a good ANSI/ASCII art viewer for Windows, check out ACIDView for Windows, which is available fro download on this page too. | |
SAC Pack Installer
The installer was used to install a SAC Pack on a Windows computer for the not so computer savvy audience who might wants to look at an old artpack, but does not know who to unzip a pack release file. | |
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SAC Musicdisks
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I Miss You Amiga
Musikdisk by the SAC musician "Crome". The musicdisk was released in October 2004 and has a Windows interface to play the songs.
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Svenzzon's Chipdisc #1
This musicdisk was released in November 2004, only one month after the one from Crome. This one features music (Chip Tunes) by the SAC musician "Svenzzon". It also has a Windows interface to play the tunes that are part of this musikdisk release.
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