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Top 20 C Ascii Projects
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astroterm
A planetarium for your terminal! Explore stars, planets, constellations, and more, all rendered right in the command line—no telescope required. ✨🪐
Project mention: I Made Zig Compute 33M Satellite Positions in 3 Seconds. No GPU Required | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-21 -
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So doom-ascii is sourcedoom, you Made a nodexwrapper https://github.com/wojciech-graj/doom-ascii
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Project mention: Show HN: MoebiusXBIN – ASCII and text-mode art editor with custom font support | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-30
I've encountered SAUCE, long since; but the page is right. I've personally never directly encountered XBIN, and it does seem that it did not take off as predicted.
* https://acid.org/images/0896/XBIN.TXT
The world does not seem to have managed to do for text (art image) files what TIFF did for graphics files. Although https://16colo.rs/ , recently on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44665816) seems to be getting by on just SAUCE plus FILE_ID.DIZ.
See https://github.com/ansilove/ansilove#features , for one example of what we have instead. (-:
I would have quipped that someone has yet to have the idea of using JSON instead of these directly-machine-readable binary formats. But the DurDraw developers have indeed done that very thing.
* https://github.com/cmang/durdraw/blob/master/durformat.md
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Project mention: despacer: C library to remove white space from strings as fast as possible | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-13
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https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/ascii-render
2) TurboStitchGIF: A fast, header-only C GIF decoder without dynamic allocations, ideal for embedded systems and cross-platform projects.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
C Ascii discussion
C Ascii related posts
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despacer: C library to remove white space from strings as fast as possible
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Ask HN: What do you think of my rendering library ASCII embedd/SDL?
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C3 (a C-like programming language) hits 0.6.6
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Go To Software/Tools for Programmers
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Another GPT-3 based AI assistant for the terminal
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A split layout where each half is identical but mirrored?
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Text UI components like “ncurses”
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Ascii projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | astroterm | 1,973 |
| 2 | doom-ascii | 860 |
| 3 | ansilove | 423 |
| 4 | sssnake | 231 |
| 5 | despacer | 158 |
| 6 | sbbs | 105 |
| 7 | retrovoxel | 101 |
| 8 | hasciicam | 98 |
| 9 | lbbs | 84 |
| 10 | img2ascii | 71 |
| 11 | ansi-art | 48 |
| 12 | ascii-raytrace | 29 |
| 13 | nuru | 18 |
| 14 | treedude | 18 |
| 15 | tsprite | 9 |
| 16 | cassette_deck | 9 |
| 17 | ConPlayer | 9 |
| 18 | ascii-render | 5 |
| 19 | Win2Con | 2 |
| 20 | asciifolding | 1 |
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