Ansilove/PHP 1.10 has been released. You can download it here.

• Added new and updated documentation file in AsciiDoc format (Also available in HTML and PDF)
• Using proper bitshift instead of pow for ADF / IDF / XBIN font processing
• Skipping 'Set mode' and 'Reset mode' sequences to correctly render files saved with recent versions of PabloDraw

I'm also very pleased to mention that Ansilove has been ported to C thanks to the efforts of Stefan Vogt, Brian Cassidy, and myself. It is now fully functional and usable as a library or as a command line line converter : check out the Ansilove/C project page on GitHub.

Ansilove/PHP 1.09 has been released. You can download it here.

• Added functions in the ANSi loader to split the output into several PNG files (SPLIT_* options in the config file)
• Added support for Amiga ANSi (Bold, Italics, and Underlined characters)
• Memory usage optimization (Some data structures modified, support for 65535 lines of text)
• Relicensed under a MIT-style license
• Added Terminus font support (http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net)

Since version 1.09, Ansilove is now licensed under a (more permissive) MIT-style license, please check the LICENSE file included in the source package for more information.

Ansilove/PHP 1.08 has been released. You can download it here.

• Added new improved Amiga fonts (With corrected aspect ratio and 100% accurate characters)
• Reordered font palettes to follow the ANSi color order rather than the EGA one
• Added an error message logger (ANSILOVE_LOG_FILE option in the config file, default : ansilove.log)
• Added an option to continue rendering input files when the substitude (SUB) character is encountered (SUBSTITUTE_BREAK option in the config file, default : 1 => Stop when encountering SUB character)
• Added an option to allow enabling/disabling 80th column wrapping (WRAP_COLUMN_80 option in the config file, default : 1 => Wrap)
• Changed default background color value for CED mode (170,170,170) instead of (168,168,168)
• Added a transparent rendering mode to produce output files with transparent background (only available in ANSi loader)
• Added Workbench mode to render the input file using Amiga Workbench colors (only available in ANSi loader)
• Added scalable thumbnails support (THUMBNAILS_SIZE option in the config file)
• Added an example file for thumbnails rendering (examples/thumbnails.html)
• Added 3 example ASCiis (Thanks to : Cubon, Spidy and Spot)

On other news, Ansilove is now on GitHub as well, for those who would like to test the development version : https://github.com/fcambus/ansilove

Version 1.09 is coming in the following days, stay tuned!

Although the site has been updated a few times, I realize it has been a long time since my previous post here : almost two years have gone by...

So what's new, you may ask? The download section now has its own page, instead of the previous redirection to the sourceforge download page. I also added a "BBS Nostalgia" section including some screen captures from some old French BBSes I used to call during the second part of the nineties.

I'm now also hosting an artpacks archive which is a mirror of the Sixteen Colors archive. The synchronization is not an automated process, so I will update the archive from time to time whenever new packs or recovered lost ones are added to the repository. Once again, if you used to be involved in artscene and you happen to have old backups from that era in your possession, please help us recovering any lost gems which are still missing and nowhere to be found online. This would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!

Lastly, for those interested in keeping in touch, I'm now present on Twitter.

Ansilove/PHP has reached the 5000 downloads milestone this month, which is quite an achievement considering this tool is aimed at a very specified audience. Few months ago, we also received a "100% Free" award from Softpedia. I'm very pleased to see Ansilove getting more widely used and appreciated within the community, and would like to thank everyone who contributed to this project in any way!

I'm currently working on version 1.08, which will include new and improved Amiga fonts as well as a lot of requested features and improvements.

Ansilove/PHP 1.07 has been released. You can download it here.

• Added support for thumbnails rendering, with configurable maximum height
• Added customizable output color definitions in the configuration file for CED mode rendering
• Modified the ANSi parser to allow ansi sequences with inverted graphic rendition values to render correctly

Ansilove/PHP 1.06 has been released. You can download it here.

• Dumped all the fonts again to make the font collection more homogeneous and avoid minor character differences between fonts as much as possible
• Added 6 new PC Fonts (Charsets : Armenian, French Canadian, Greek (CP869), Icelandic, Persian, Portuguese)
• Fixed minor color palette problems causing the full intensity value to be 252 instead of 255
• Added customizable file extensions definitions in the configuration file for DIZ mode rendering
• Added filters removing white spaces and empty lines at the beginning and end of DIZ files

A new site using Ansilove to render Ascii characters is up at http://www.ascii-codes.com. It is an ASCii table featuring 14 MS-DOS charsets with 100% accurate and pixel precise characters faithful to the original DOS fonts!

Ansilove/PHP 1.06 is also on its way and will be released pretty soon, so be sure to check site updates on a regular basis!

Ansilove/PHP 1.05 has been released. You can download it here.

• Added support for PCBoard (.PCB) format
• Updated the documentation (README file), to cover options related to the PCBoard loader (PCB codes stripping)
• Fixed a bug preventing the CED rendering mode to operate correctly. Ansi and PCBoard files can now be rendered in CED mode again
• Added 1 example ANSi and 1 example ASCii

Ansilove/PHP 1.04 has been released. You can download it here.

• Added 9 new PC Fonts (Charsets: Baltic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin1, Latin2, Nordic, Russian, Turkish)
• Fixed .DIZ file extension detection in the online converter, uploaded .DIZ files are now rendered with the exact needed number of columns
• Fixed some uninitialized variables warnings
• Added 1 example ASCii
• Added a loader (ansilove.bat) for the command line converter under Windows
• Converted the HTML templates to XHTML (ansilove.html and Ansilove online)
• Modified the Ansilove Online upload interface and corrected the maximum length value for the columns argument
• Updated the documentation (README file), which is now providing more detailed examples about all the possible options, and informations about command line converter usage under Windows

Ansilove site has been redesigned using full CSS and jQuery, and the new version is finally online! Thanks a lot to Fabts for his very precious help and his numerous tips about CSS layouts design. The links section has been updated and is now featuring a list of sites using Ansilove. The online documentation section will be updated soon, please check the README file included in the releases meanwhile.

I'm getting involved in this project again and working on a new version of the program, which will feature 9 new PC fonts and a few minor fixes. Support for PCBoard files (.PCB) is also on its way, as part of the effort to make Ansilove as complete as possible.

Ansilove/PHP 1.03 has been released. You can download it here.

MANDATORY UPGRADE! Fixes a serious content disclosure security issue!

• Added input sanitization in the loaders (load_*.php) to prevent disclosure of unauthorized content by converting files accessible by the webserver
• Added a .htaccess to restrict access (Deny to all by default) to the 'upload' directory (online converter)
• Adding '.ansilove' at the end of the uploaded filenames to prevent code injection if the upload directory access isn't restricted, and delete the uploaded file after the convertion (online converter)
• The online converter is now using the internal loaders from the library instead of the load_*.php loaders
• Added a config file to define directories path
• Added checks for requires in the online converter and in the loaders

Ansilove/PHP 1.02 has been released. You can download it here.

• Added support for IDF (.IDF) format
• Added support for TUNDRA (.TND) format
• Added support for XBiN (.XB) format
• Added online file converter
• Added CED mode to render the input file in black on gray (only available in ANSi loader)
• Added topazplus alias for topaz+ so it is possible to use it in urls
• Enforced little-endian byte order instead of machine byte order when unpacking data
• Added 3 example ANSis
• Fixed a bug in ADF converter, color 0 of the palette was set to black instead of the correct value

Ansilove/PHP 1.01 has been released. You can download it here.

• Added 6 new Amiga Fonts
• Files with a .DIZ extension are now rendered with the exact needed number of columns
• Fixed a background rendering bug in ANSi converter, which caused problems when using Amiga Font (Used font_size_x value for background block size instead of a fixed value)
• Fixed another background bug in ANSi converter (Buffer wasn't filled with black after being allocated, which caused some blocks to have an incorrect background color if nothing was drawn)

Opening of the web site and initial release of Ansilove/PHP. You can download it here.