peter nitsch.net

I’ve always been a huge fan of the ANSI art scene, having spent too many hours surfing BBSes back in the early 90′s. Even these days, I kill time searching Sixteen Colors for old ACiD and iCE packs along with newer works (yes, the scene is still alive).

As a personal project for the last month, I’ve been writing an AS3 parser for ANSI codes. I used Zeh Fernando’s Perfect DOS VGA 437 Font for the character set, and wrote the escape sequence logic from scratch (Zeh wrote an AS2 ANSi Viewer, which I didn’t use as reference). Yesterday I finally finished the parsing. In the next few weeks I’ll be adding features, and cleaning up the parsing code which will eventually end up on to code.google. Any comments and suggestions on the direction this thing should take are welcome.

Check it out.