retrotxt.com

Turn pieces of ANSI based text art and ASCII, NFO plain text into HTML.

Latest Version

Version

5.5.0

Update

May 27, 2024

Size

7.07MiB

Developer

retrotxt.com

RetroTxt Extension

Turn pieces of ANSI, ASCII, and NFO documents into a web document. RetroTxt is the 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, system, and dev-op logs styled with colored text
- View BBS colored text files for Celerity, PC Board, Renegade, Telegard, Wildcat!, WVIV systems

** Please note that when installing RetroTxt requests, Read and change all data permissions. While necessary, RetroTxt ignores all websites except those you tell it to monitor in the background and never collects or transmits any data. Learn more: https://docs.retrotxt.com/usage/secure/

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 code

Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "action": { "default_title": "RetroTxt", "default_icon": { "16": "assets/retrotxt_16.png", "19": "assets/retrotxt_19.png", "32": "assets/retrotxt_32.png", "38": "assets/retrotxt_38.png", "48": "assets/retrotxt_48.png", "128": "assets/retrotxt_128.png" }, "default_popup": "html/popup.html" }, "author": "Ben Garrett", "background": { "service_worker": "scripts/sw/background.js" }, "content_scripts": [ { "matches": [ "*://*.retrotxt.com/*", "https://*/*", "http://*/*", "file:///*" ], "all_frames": true, "js": [ "scripts/sw/helpers.js" ] } ], "commands": { "_execute_action": { "suggested_key": { "default": "Alt+R" }, "description": "Display the RetroTxt quick help" } }, "default_locale": "en_US", "description": "Turn pieces of ANSI based text art and ASCII, NFO plain text into HTML.", "homepage_url": "https://retrotxt.com", "host_permissions": [ "*://*.retrotxt.com/*", "https://*/", "http://*/", "file://*/" ], "icons": { "16": "assets/retrotxt_16.png", "19": "assets/retrotxt_19.png", "32": "assets/retrotxt_32.png", "38": "assets/retrotxt_38.png", "48": "assets/retrotxt_48.png", "128": "assets/retrotxt_128.png" }, "incognito": "split", "manifest_version": 3, "minimum_chrome_version": "106", "name": "RetroTxt", "omnibox": { "keyword": "txt" }, "optional_permissions": [ "downloads", "downloads.open" ], "options_ui": { "page": "html/options.html", "open_in_tab": true }, "permissions": [ "activeTab", "contextMenus", "scripting", "storage" ], "short_name": "RetroTxt", "version": "5.5.0", "web_accessible_resources": [ { "resources": [ "css/*.css" ], "matches": [ "*://*.retrotxt.com/*", "https://*/*", "http://*/*", "file://*/*" ] }, { "resources": [ "js/linkify.js", "js/linkify-element.js", "js/linkify-plugin-ip.js", "js/purify.js" ], "matches": [ "*://*.retrotxt.com/*", "https://*/*", "http://*/*", "file://*/*" ] }, { "resources": [ "fonts/*.woff2" ], "matches": [ "*://*.retrotxt.com/*", "https://*/*", "http://*/*", "file://*/*" ] } ]}

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User reviews

Michael Pang (ID: 000000f80ed1d093) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 05/18/2023 Great for viewing logfiles! Although some settings like the palette and page wrap don't persist.

Christoffer “Severin” Willgren (ID: 000000f8cb871dc6) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 03/15/2022 Word, legendary addon! //#1733 Cellblock AoD

Anatoli Verkhovski (ID: 000000e2674d1d0d) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 09/03/2021 Great little tool! I use it for viewing log from (simulated) embedded devices.

Jon Velapoldi (ID: 000000227943638a) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 09/28/2020 I use this for (IMO) one of the scourges of the internet, log files that use ANSI control sequences to just change the color of text output. And for that, this is one of the few consistent plugins that's reasonably well-maintaned. It's a bit hokey to set up for the purposes that I want, as the plugin assumes a 80-character width which isn't true for log files, but that's reasonably easy to work through with the myriad of options available (I pick Fonts -> Monospace (default), Display -> Windows (color pair), ANSI -> uncheck ANSI 80 column wrap, ANSI -> IBM VGA (color palette), ANSI -> Use iCE colors (checked) to show reasonably well).

Stewart Rap (ID: 000000e61b355134) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 12/05/2017 Draws perhaps half of the ansis I view correctly. Lots of "unknown control" and "unknown function" errors.

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