Based on our record, Playscii should be more popular than Karbon. It has been mentiond 3 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
An alternative to your first link: https://jp.itch.io/playscii. Source: about 2 years ago
Oh, and to easily convert images to ANSI-like art on a modern system, use a program called Playscii (https://jp.itch.io/playscii). Source: almost 3 years ago
I found this cool ASCII art program on Itch.io called Playscii. After faffing about with it for a while I thought some of the character sets would work well for making maps. So I redrew the map of a Sky Tomb from the Stars Without Number adventure Hard Light. They're not spectacular (I'm still new to visual art) but I think they look super cool. I think this visual style fits really well with the OSR. Source: about 3 years ago
Similarly, Karbon (part of the Calligra suite) absorbed the suite's dedicated flowchart tool, and is pretty functional for this purpose, but it's primarily developed for Linux. While they have Windows installers, they're not the easiest to find and aren't directly supported. Source: about 2 years ago
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