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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, terminal, and DevOps logs styled with colored text

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

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 · Edge

Or use the source code

A legacy edition is available for Firefox *

Firefox support will resume once its Manifest version 3 implementation reaches general availability.

Firefox legacy source code

Requirements

Chrome or Edge 106 (or a compatible browser such as Brave, Chromium or Vivaldi)

Or newer browsers

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.

RetroTxt Privacy

License

An important note about the license

While RetroTxt uses a GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0, the included fonts do not. 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)

RetroTxt ANSI logo Zeus II Twitter @Zeus_II

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
• Mona public domain
• MSX by Andy Teijelo Pérez
• Multi Platform Fonts by TrueSchool Ascii
• Plex by IBM Corp.
• Spleen by Frederic Cambus
• Unscii by Viznut

CSS framework by Bulma

Options icons by Google Material Design