MoebiusXBIN is an ASCII / text-mode art editor for MacOS, Linux and Windows, with support for custom fonts and colors.

• Moebius XBIN: https://github.com/hlotvonen/moebius/releases

• MoebiusXBIN comes with a new tutorial geared towards complete beginners. When you open the app, either by click the "Tutorial" button in the splash screen, or select it from the Help menu.
• Check the "Keyboard shortcut cheatsheet" from the Help menu

This is a forked version of Moebius, a classic ASCII and ANSI art editor. MoebiusXBIN extends it by supporting custom colors and fonts with the XBIN format.

• Custom font support (load & save)
• Thousands of new fonts:
  • Added VileR's VGA text-mode fonts
  • 🆕 Added 661 new fonts sourced from various Amiga discs
  • 🆕 Font browser with filtering, live preview, and favorites
• 🆕 Import and export fonts as PNG
• 9px font as preference option
• Font character set displayed in the sidebar
• Character code display in status bar

• 🆕 Added writing directions: right-to-left, top-to-bottom, bottom-to-top
• 🆕 Added non-CP437 encodings support with iconv-lite
• 🆕 Cardinal newline directions with position tracking
• 🆕 Arabic text support with shaping and ligatures

• 🆕 Q key inserts selected character feature
• 🆕 Use number keys as function keys preference
• 🆕 Use Alt keycodes to insert characters
• 🆕 Load/save character sets as ANS files
• 🆕 Optional character set remapping on click toggle
• 🆕 Added hotkey to SHIFT+ALT+Left Click to pick character from the canvas

• 🆕 Splash screen now has a tutorial button

• 24-bit color support (thanks to jejacks0n!)
• Added hundreds of 16 color palettes sourced from Lospec.com
• 🆕 Palette browser with live preview and favorites
• 🆕 Load/save palettes as hex files

• 🆕 Drawing grid feature with 1x1 grid option (thanks to grymmjack
• 🆕 Middle line guide
• 🆕 50% zoom support
• PETSCII support and guide
• Reference image tool with drag, opacity, width/angle controls (thanks to michael-lazar
• Reference images in separate windows

• 🆕 Alt+arrows for Insert/delete row/column with canvas resizing similar to Pablodraw

• Fixed XBIN encoding not saving font data (82ac695, 114889d)
• Fix saving odd-column xbins and fix double-appending SAUCE records to xbin files (ce08e0f)
• Fix the "Save Without Sauce Info" menu operation (a887f54)
• Fixed charlist size when hidden and reshown (6caff43)
• Fixes scroll behavior for 200% zoom (104165a, 4703f7e)
• Fixes mouse move events from not triggering on the cell that was most recently clicked (c8f97b9)
• Fixing mouse coords when 9px font (479cceb)
• Fixed custom font loading and improved error messaging (62c7e47)
• Fixed bug where ctrl+x would cut even with no selection (afa4040)
• Alt+arrows would scroll the view also, preventing the insert/delete row from happening (eacb7c1)
• When canvas is resized, drawing guides dont disappear anymore (466452c)
• Bugfix: remove ice colors as new document works now (3f04b6e)
• bugfix: grymmjack#30 Right justifying a line no longer resets bg color to 0 (91e4aaa)
• Moved canvas to middle if zoomed 200% (795564b)
• switched some layouts from using floats to css grid
• fixed bug where ctrl+x would cut even with no selection.

• All credits go to Andy Herbert who made the original Moebius.
• This fork is maintained by me, hlotvonen
• Huge thanks for major contributions to grymmjack, jejacks0n, michael-lazar and bart-d, among others.
• Grymmjack maintains his own fork of my fork, but I have now merged it.
• Uses modified Google's Material Icons. https://material.io/icons/
• Included fonts:
  • GJSCI-3, GJSCI-4 and GJSCI-X appears courtesy of GrymmJack
  • FROGBLOCK appears courtesy of PolyDucks
  • Newschool fonts collected and modified from the NewSchool pack, courtesy of XBIN workshop participants at the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2021.
  • structures font by Gladys Camilo
  • TES-* fonts by me.
  • Topaz originally appeared in Amiga Workbench, courtesy of Commodore Int.
  • Topaz Kickstart versions uncovered by heckmeck, courtesy of Commodore Int.
  • P0t-NOoDLE appears courtesy of Leo 'Nudel' Davidson
  • mO'sOul appears courtesy of Desoto/Mo'Soul
  • Viler's VGA font collection, with additional info on sources in the FONTS.TXT
  • Discmaster fonts collected from discmaster.textfiles.com

Copyright 2021 Andy Herbert

Licensed under the Apache License, version 2.0