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Show HN: MoebiusXBIN – ASCII and text-mode art editor with custom font support


Create your own textmode graphics & unusual ASCII art

Traditionally ASCII art is made in plain text, and displayed in text-mode using character sets stored in the ROM of computer graphics adapters. This has carried on to modern text-mode art editors, which are designed to produce files compatible with real retro hardware, even if they're rarely viewed with them. That was in 2020, and at the time of writing (2025), the editor has received multiple additional features, and has been used to explore the potentials of custom fonts by manyartists.

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