ANSi View is an application to view ANSi and artscene related file formats on the PlayStation 3.

The ansiview-ps3 homebrew app supports viewing ANSI and ASCII files directly on your PS3.

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The following formats are supported:

• .ANS - ANSi (ANSI escape sequences: ANSI X3.64 standard)
• .PCB - PCBoard Bulletin Board System (BBS) own file format
• .BIN - Binary format (raw memory copy of text mode video memory)
• .ADF - Artworx format, supporting custom character sets and palettes
• .IDF - iCE Draw format, supporting custom character sets and palettes
• .TND - TundraDraw format, supporting 24-bit color mode
• .XB - The eXtended Binary XBin format, supporting custom character sets and palettes
• .TXT, .ASC, .NFO, .DIZ - ASCII text files

Supported Background music formats:

• .669 - Composer 669, Unis 669
• .AMF - DSMI Advanced Module Format
• .DSM - DSIK internal format
• .FAR - Farandole Composer
• .GDM - General DigiMusic
• .IT - Impulse Tracker
• .IMF - Imago Orpheus
• .MOD - 15/31 instruments
• .MED - OctaMED
• .MTM - MultiTracker Module editor
• .OKT - Amiga Oktalyzer
• .S3M - Scream Tracker 3
• .STM - Scream Tracker
• .STX - Scream Tracker Music Interface Kit
• .ULT - UltraTracker
• .APUN - APlayer and UNI (MikMod)
• .XM - FastTracker 2

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See the latest changes here.

No special setup is needed. Just download the latest ansiview-ps3.pkg package and install it on your PlayStation 3.

Using the application is simple and straight-forward:

• Move UP/DOWN to select the ANSi art file you want to view, and press . The selected image will scroll on the screen.
• To see the item's SAUCE details, press . It will open the context menu on the screen. Press to return to the list.
• To reload the folder list, press .
• Press left (L1/L2) or right trigger buttons (R1/R2) to move pages up or down.

• USB art packs: your folders must be placed on /dev_usb000/ANSIVIEW/ or /dev_usb001/ANSIVIEW/.
• HDD art packs: folders will be scanned from /dev_hdd0/game/NP0ANSIVW/USRDIR/DATA/.

The application provides direct access to the 16colors archive of artscene files. You can browse their entire art collection (1990 - 2020) if your PS3 has a network connection available.

Note: Downloaded art files are cached on /dev_hdd0/game/NP0ANSIVW/USRDIR/CACHE/.

• Bucanero: Project developer
• Dnawrkshp: Artemis PS3
• ByteProject/bricas/fcambus: libansilove

You need to have installed:

• PS3 toolchain
• PSL1GHT SDK
• Tiny3D library (from Estwald)
• MikMod library
• libansilove library (my own custom version)
• libcurl library
• dbglogger lib (my own debug logging library)

Run make to create a release build. After that, run make pkg to create a .pkg install file.

You can also set the PS3LOAD environment variable to the PS3 IP address: export PS3LOAD=tcp:x.x.x.x. This will allow you to use make run and send ansiview-ps3.self directly to the PS3Load listener.

To enable debug logging, build ANSi View with make DEBUGLOG=1. The application will send debug messages to UDP multicast address 239.255.0.100:30000. To receive them you can use socat on your computer:

$ socat udp4-recv:30000,ip-add-membership=239.255.0.100:0.0.0.0 -

ansiview-ps3 is released under the MIT License.