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Turn pieces of ANSI, ASCII, and NFO documents into HTML. RetroTxt is the browser Extension that takes legacy and plain text files and stylizes them into a more acceptable, valid format to view or copy from a web browser tab.

  • View ANSI, ASCII, NFO, Shift JIS text art as HTML
  • View server, system, and dev-op logs styled with colored text
  • View BBS colored text files for Celerity, PC Board, Renegade, Telegard, Wildcat!, WVIV systems

Install on Chrome   Install on Edge   Install on Firefox

Or use the GNU LGPLv3 source code

Screenshots

RetroTxt showcase
View ANSI colored text in a browser

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Toggle back to the raw text view

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Choose from hundreds of fonts to style ASCII texts

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Descriptive and simple to use options

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Optional, extra details for each text file

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Copy the output of RetroTxt and paste it into a standard text editor

Features

  • Swappable palettes for different color simulations
    VGA, CGA, Unix xterm, Apple IIgs, Commodore 64, monochrome and switchable iCE Colors
  • Customizable font and background colors
  • SAUCE metadata parsing
  • Support for multiple text encodings
    MS-DOS CP-437, Amiga ISO-8959-1, Windows 1252, Japanese Shift-JIS
  • Automatic fixes for block character and line artifacts
  • Hundreds of IBM PC font choices
    VGA, EGA, CGA, MDA, PS/2, and more
  • Various Amiga and microcomputer fonts
    From Commodore, Atari, Apple, Tandy, and more
  • Open-source
  • No special browser permissions for general usage