Is there anyone here doing ANSI on linux raspberrypi?

Has anyone heard of a curses/ncurses based ANSI drawing program?

I've got some art to create for my system, but my only computers with a monitor attached are raspberry pi.

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Re: ansi art software linux raspberrypi
By: bbsing to All on Tue Apr 08 2025 08:54 pm

Is there anyone here doing ANSI on linux raspberrypi?

Has anyone heard of a curses/ncurses based ANSI drawing program?

There's SyncDraw:
https://syncdraw.bbsdev.net/
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Re: ansi art software linux raspberrypi
By: bbsing to All on Tue Apr 08 2025 08:54 pm

Is there anyone here doing ANSI on linux raspberrypi?

It's not curses/ncurses, but I use Moebius. You would probably have to install it from source on an Rpi, though, because I'm guessing they only have x86 packages on their github. I always have to make sure to save without that extra meta garbage it wants to add, though.

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Re: ansi art software linux raspberrypi
By: Digital Man to bbsing on Tue Apr 08 2025 22:51:28

Re: ansi art software linux raspberrypi
By: bbsing to All on Tue Apr 08 2025 08:54 pm

Is there anyone here doing ANSI on linux raspberrypi?

Has anyone heard of a curses/ncurses based ANSI drawing program?

There's SyncDraw:
https://syncdraw.bbsdev.net/

Thanks Digital Man,

Using a remote ssh linux system in tmux session, -----------------------------------------------
I clonded the git:
git clone https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs.git
cd sbbs/src/syncdraw
make
cd sbbs/src/syncdraw/gcc.linux.x64.exe.debug
./syncdraw

then editor goodness. :)


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I also found DurDraw, although I haven't worked through the install/build. https://durdraw.org/
https://github.com/cmang/durdraw/#start-of-content

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Re: ansi art software linux raspberrypi
By: bbsing to All on Tue Apr 08 2025 08:54 pm

Is there anyone here doing ANSI on linux raspberrypi?
Has anyone heard of a curses/ncurses based ANSI drawing program?

I don't know if it uses nCurses, but [Icy_Tools](https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_tools) has a great icy_draw app that has a lot of next gen features for ansi art. It only came out recently and has a steady amount of development. Worth checking out.

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Re: ansi art software linux raspberrypi
By: Android8675 to bbsing on Mon Apr 14 2025 08:06:24

Re: ansi art software linux raspberrypi
By: bbsing to All on Tue Apr 08 2025 08:54 pm

Is there anyone here doing ANSI on linux raspberrypi?
Has anyone heard of a curses/ncurses based ANSI drawing program?

I don't know if it uses nCurses, but [Icy_Tools](https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_tools) has a great icy_draw app that has a lot
of
next gen features for ansi art. It only came out recently and has a steady amount of development. Worth checking out.

Android8675,

Thanks for the reply.

I'm testing a few a couple right now.

I recently installed moebius thinking i could use a web browser instead of ncurses. Moebius has a feature to run as a server, so I would be able to use my work computer to access the canvas, but the vm I put it on seems to be out of memory so I have to make and adjustment there.

Ncurses is an interesting interface with ANSI. Different terminal emulaters show the characters and colors in a different way, and sometimes the ESC key doesn't work, so I have to use 'ctrl + [' .

But I'll keep trying different ones to see how they work.

I will take a look at Icy_Tools.

take care
bbsing

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Re: ansi art software linux raspberrypi
By: bbsing to All on Tue Apr 08 2025 20:54:12

Has anyone heard of a curses/ncurses based ANSI drawing program?

Yeah, but they were foiled again. :)

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Re: ansi art software linux raspberrypi
By: bbsing to Digital Man on Wed Apr 09 2025 18:53:20

There's SyncDraw:
https://syncdraw.bbsdev.net/

Is there a way to include syncdraw as part of the compile with sbbs?

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Re: ansi art software linux raspberrypi
By: bbsing to Digital Man on Mon Sep 07 2026 05:36 pm

Re: ansi art software linux raspberrypi
By: bbsing to Digital Man on Wed Apr 09 2025 18:53:20

There's SyncDraw:
https://syncdraw.bbsdev.net/

Is there a way to include syncdraw as part of the compile with sbbs?

For Linux? Running 'make' in src/syncdraw seems to do just that.
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Re: ansi art software linux raspberrypi
By: Digital Man to bbsing on Mon Sep 07 2026 19:16:12

There's SyncDraw:
https://syncdraw.bbsdev.net/

Is there a way to include syncdraw as part of the compile with sbbs?

For Linux? Running 'make' in src/syncdraw seems to do just that.

Thanks Digial Man,

Yeah I'm using linux/ubuntu now.

/repo/src/syncdraw
make

that did make where the binaries landed in: /sbbs/repo/src/syncdraw/gcc.linux.x64.exe.release
buildfont
fontutil
syncdraw

What I'm trying to do might not be possible. But trying to get syncdraw to be part of the Xternal programs for the bbs.

Given synterm, syndraw, are in the repo, maybe there was a way to include them with the sbbs build.
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Re: ansi art software linux raspberrypi
By: bbsing to Digital Man on Tue Sep 08 2026 04:51 am

What I'm trying to do might not be possible. But trying to get syncdraw to b part of the Xternal programs for the bbs.

Don't forget about SyncWall ;).

Although I still haven't figured when that gets cleared. Is it daily?

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Re: ansi art software linux raspberrypi
By: bbsing to Digital Man on Tue Sep 08 2026 04:51 am

What I'm trying to do might not be possible. But trying to get syncdraw to be part of the Xternal programs for the bbs.

You want a remote (ANSI) BBS user to be able to run SyncDraw? I don't know if it was designed for that. Probably a question for Deuce.
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Re: ansi art software linux raspberrypi
By: bbsing to Digital Man on Tue Sep 08 2026 04:51 am

You want a remote (ANSI) BBS user to be able to run SyncDraw? I don't know if it was designed for that. Probably a question for Deuce.

Yeah that was my intent.

Mostly for me, but for anyone else within the system.
A couple days ago I went to the link https://syncdraw.bbsdev.net/ and clicked contact, that took me the developers board, as guest I sent a message asking if the person has the time to send a message over here.

I want to be able to login to my board and try and work on my ansi and ascii screens.

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Re: ansi art software linux raspberrypi
By: bbsing to Digital Man on Wed Sep 09 2026 04:31 pm

Re: ansi art software linux raspberrypi
By: bbsing to Digital Man on Tue Sep 08 2026 04:51 am

You want a remote (ANSI) BBS user to be able to run SyncDraw? I don't know
if it was designed for that. Probably a question for Deuce.

Yeah that was my intent.

Mostly for me, but for anyone else within the system.
A couple days ago I went to the link https://syncdraw.bbsdev.net/ and clicked > contact, that took me the developers board, as guest I sent a message asking
if the person has the time to send a message over here.

I want to be able to login to my board and try and work on my ansi and ascii screens.

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Okay but is that really a good feature for a user?

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Re: ansi art software linux raspberrypi
By: bbsing to Digital Man on Tue Sep 08 2026 04:51 am

You want a remote (ANSI) BBS user to be able to run SyncDraw? I don't know

if

it was designed for that. Probably a question for Deuce.

Yeah that was my intent.

Mostly for me, but for anyone else within the system.
A couple days ago I went to the link https://syncdraw.bbsdev.net/ and clicked contact, that took me the developers board, as guest I sent a message asking if the person has the time to send a message over here.

I want to be able to login to my board and try and work on my ansi and ascii screens.

Just curious, but... why? Why the need to be logged in to work on them?

Can't you just work on them offline and upload/update after making
changes?



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Re: ansi art software linux raspberrypi
By: bbsing to Digital Man on Wed Sep 09 2026 04:31 pm

Okay but is that really a good feature for a user?

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If the user can create ansi art right on a BBS, seems like a nice feature in a BBS to me.


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