PabloDraw is a text editor for Windows, designed for creating ANSI and ASCII art, similar to that of its DOS-based predecessors; ACiDDraw (1994) and TheDraw (1986).
A notable feature of PabloDraw is its integrated multi-user editing support, making it the first groupware ANSI/ASCII editor in existence. This allows artists from around the world with an internet connection to cooperatively draw (and chat) together creating what are referred to as “joints”, or jointly created productions, and has radically changed the way these artists collaborate together in this form.
This editor is capable of handling most standard text mode formats such as ANSI, ASCII and Binary (.BIN). Additionally it supports different aspect ratios such as the 80×25 and 80×50 (25 and 50-line text graphics modes, respectively) and emulates the Amiga Topaz font for artists who prefer to draw using that specific extended character set.
PabloDraw was built to run on Windows, but can also be run in Linux using wine.
Download PabloDraw ALPHA (recommended)
Download the OLD PabloDraw
Change Log
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Screenshots
PabloDraw in Action
Tutorials
Links
- Sixteen Colors
- Ansi/Ascii/Rip archive of all art packs dating back from 1990 to today. Uses the pablodraw engine!
- Pharcyde
- Scene related site/forums
- Thuglife.org
- Ascii-focused forums
- deviantART
- deviantART is the premiere global interaction and communication platform for the artistic lifestyle
- BBS Documentary
- A mini-series of 8 episodes about the history of the BBS
- Art scene history
- An Abbreviated History of the Underground Computer Art Scene
- TundraDraw
- A cross-platform ANSI editor similar to PabloDraw


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