RetroTxt

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 and DevOps logs styled with colored text

View BBS colored text files for Celerity, PC Board, Renegade, Telegard, Wildcat!, WVIV systems

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Install from, the Chrome store · Microsoft addons · Firefox addons

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

Check out the documentation

Changes and what is new

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Install · suitable for all compatible browsers

· Chrome store · Edge addons

· Or use the source code

· Firefox, discontinued

Firefox support will resume once its Manifest version 3 implementation supports service workers, 5 years and waiting.

Privacy

RetroTxt does not collect or transmit any data created by your web browser. All Extension data is stored locally on your computer using the storage.local API.

License, LGPL

An important note about the software license, the license does not cover the included fonts. You should read each font license in the fonts/ subdirectory before redistribution, as some of the authors do not permit the sale or modification of their fonts or collections.

Credits

RetroTxt by Ben Garrett, @ mail. ANSI logo by Zeus II. CSS framework by Bulma. Options icons by Google Material Design.

Fonts from,

• The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack by Viler.
• Retro Computer Fonts by Kreative Korp.
• Typography articles by Damien Guard.

Atari Classic TrueType Fonts by Mark L. Simonson. Atari ST 8x16 System by divVerent. C64 TrueType by Style. Cascadia by Microsoft. IBM 3270 by Ricardo Banffy. Intel One Mono by Intel Corp. Mona in the public domain. MSX by Andy Teijelo Pérez. Multi Platform Fonts by TrueSchool Ascii. Plex by IBM Corp. Spleen by Frederic Cambus. Unscii by Viznut.

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Also available, Retrotxt for the terminal! An app to handle legacy, code page text files in a modern shell.