What is ASCIIPaint?

ASCIIPaint lets you paint, like you would with other Macintosh painting programs and then save your ASCII document.  The big difference is that you are painting with ASCII characters.  ASCII characters are letters, number, symbols, and any other character you have on your keyboard. The ASCIIPaint grid size is 62x23.

Erasing is now done by pressing the eraser tool button on the command ribbon.  You can also activate this tool by pressing the space bar.  Pressing any other letter will reselect the paint tool, with that letter as the current brush. You can turn on a grid by selecting pressing the grid button in the ribbon bar. By holding the shift key down while you paint, ASCIIPaint will only paint in a straight line in the direction you start moving the brush (horizontal, or vertical). There is a minor bug at the moment, this feature doesn't work when the caps lock is on. The entire drawing may be copied to the clipboard by selecting "Copy", from the Edit menu (CMD-C). ASCIIPaint also allows you to type text onto the drawing.  To do this press the "text" tool button on the command ribbon... it's the one with the T... then anywhere you click will place the insertion point...then type away!

 

Download ASCIIPaint for Mac

Architecture

Motorola 68K

System Requirements

From Mac OS 6.0 up to Mac OS 9.2

Compatibility notes

Architecture: 68K

Mac OS 6.x - Mac OS 9.2.2

 

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II