v0.1.12

BBS art, right in your terminal.

View classic ANSI, DIZ, ADF, RIPscrip, and XBin artwork as colored UTF-8, Kitty graphics, or a clean PNG export.

cargo install bbcat

view source find artwork

bbs — 80×25

❯bbcat DEMO.ANS --kitty

  ░▒▓██████╗ ██████╗  ██████╗ █████╗ ████████╗▓▒░
     ██╔══██╗██╔══██╗██╔════╝██╔══██╗╚══██╔══╝
     ██████╔╝██████╔╝██║     ███████║   ██║
     ██╔══██╗██╔══██╗██║     ██╔══██║   ██║
     ██████╔╝██████╔╝╚██████╗██║  ██║   ██║
     ╚═════╝ ╚═════╝  ╚═════╝╚═╝  ╚═╝   ╚═╝

  ANSI · XBIN · ADF · RIP · CP437
❯_

01 / DEFAULT

Colored UTF-8

Pipe it, page it, or print it directly. CP437 becomes Unicode with true-color ANSI output.

02 / PIXEL PERFECT

Kitty graphics

Preserve bitmap fonts and palettes in Kitty and Ghostty.

03 / PORTABLE

PNG export

Turn supported BBS formats into indexed-color PNG files without pulling in a runtime dependency.

Supported formats .ANS.DIZ.ASC.ADF.RIP.XB