RetroTxt
Turn pieces of ANSI based text art and ASCII, NFO plain text into HTML.
What is RetroTxt?
RetroTxt is a browser extension called RetroTxt that turns pieces of ANSI, ASCII, and NFO documents into a web document. It allows you to view ANSI, ASCII, NFO, and colored text files as HTML, offering different color simulations, customizable font and background colors, support for multiple text encodings, automatic fixes for artifacts, various font choices, and open-source code.
Add-on stats
By: BenGarrett
Rating: 3.50
(2)
Creation date: 2021-10-02
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
- activeTab
- contextMenus
- scripting
- storage
Host permissions:
- *://*.retrotxt.com/*
- https://*/
- http://*/
- file://*/
Size: 7.27M
URLs: Website ,Privacy policy
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Add-on summary
Turn pieces of ANSI, ASCII, and NFO documents into a web document. RetroTxt is the Extension that takes legacy and plain text files and stylizes them into a more acceptable, valid format to view or copy from a web browser tab.
- View ANSI, ASCII, NFO, Shift JIS text art as HTML
- View server, system, and dev-op logs styled with colored text
- View BBS colored text files for Celerity, PC Board, Renegade, Telegard, Wildcat!, WVIV systems
** Please note that when installing RetroTxt requests, Read and change all data permissions. While necessary, RetroTxt ignores all websites except those you tell it to monitor in the background and never collects or transmits any data. Learn more: https://docs.retrotxt.com/usage/secure/
Features
- Swappable palettes for different color simulations VGA, CGA, Unix xterm, Apple IIgs, Commodore 64, monochrome and switchable iCE Colors
- Customizable font and background colors
- SAUCE metadata parsing
- Support for multiple text encodings
User reviews
This extension was working great but a recent update (9/27/2022 perhaps) broke it so that it no longer works for my scenario - viewing Jenkins pipeline logs.
by Keith, 2022-10-26
Add-on safety
Risk impact
RetroTxt requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
RetroTxt is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.
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