Ascension III

Ascension III is an advanced ANSI/ASCII art viewer and text editor for macOS. Originally created by Stefan Vogt (byteproject), this fork modernizes the codebase for current macOS versions.

Features

• View ANSI/ASCII artworks with accurate rendering
• Supports a wide range of file types: ANS, BIN, ADF, IDF, XB, PCB, TND, ASC, NFO, DIZ and plain text files
• Built-in text editor with legacy encoding support (Codepage 437 and others)
• Unicode support
• Properly renders Amiga artworks
• Export as PNG images
• Retina / HiDPI rendering
• Bundled BlockZone font (faithful recreation of the original DOS font) and many classic textmode typefaces
• Multi-color themes for ASCII
• SAUCE record reading
• Advanced settings: custom BIN columns, iCE colors, custom bits

Installation

Homebrew

brew install --cask vigo/ascension/ascension

Requirements (building from source)

• macOS 13.0 (Ventura) or later
• Xcode 14+ for building from source

Building

git clone https://github.com/vigo/Ascension.git
cd Ascension
open Ascension.xcodeproj

Build and run from Xcode (Cmd+R).

What Changed in This Fork

• Removed embedded AnsiLove.framework and AutoHyperlinks.framework binaries; integrated AnsiLove source files directly into the project
• Refactored SVBlockDrawDocument for modern Objective-C compatibility
• Modernized SVPreferences, SVThemeObject, SVToggleSlider, and SVEpicAboutBoxWC
• Updated deployment target to macOS 13.0
• Cleaned up Xcode project configuration

Version

Current release is 4.0.0 (200)

License

Ascension is released under the BSD 3-Clause License.

Original author: Copyright (C) 2010-2015 Stefan Vogt.

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