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Rendering comparison of some ANSI art file on Windows 10, using simply type after setting codepage 437 vs using dos2ansi.

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You might think rendering #MSDOS #ANSIart on a modern #Windows is just fine because it still supports the old codepages, including #cp437. Well, sort of.Some escape sequences are interpreted differently than ANSI.SYS did. In the worst case, you'll just see garbage. Most files are "sane" enough though, but even then, the default colors are "just wrong"...#dos2ansi takes advantage of the 256color support available since Windows 10 to mimic the original #VGA palette. It also renders to a virtual canvas first, exactly emulating ANSI.SYS, and then uses a safe subset of ANSI for actual output. And it can read and display #SAUCE metadata. 馃槑Of course it also works on #Linux, #FreeBSD, etc.https://zirias.github.io/dos2ansi/

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