Turn pieces of ANSI, ASCII, and NFO documents into HTML. RetroTxt is the browser 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.

• 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
  MS-DOS CP-437, Amiga ISO-8959-1, Windows 1252, Japanese Shift-JIS
• Automatic fixes for block character and line artifacts
• Hundreds of IBM PC font choices
  VGA, EGA, CGA, MDA, PS/2, and more
• Various Amiga and microcomputer fonts
  From Commodore, Atari, Apple, Tandy, and more
• Open-source

Firefox support will resume once its Manifest version 3 implementation supports service workers.

Chrome or Edge 106 (or a compatible browser such as Arc, Brave or Vivaldi)

Or newer browsers

All Extension data is stored locally on your computer using the storage.local API.

RetroTxt uses the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0

The license does not cover the included fonts. You should read each font license in the fonts/ subdirectory before redistribution, as some of the authors do not permit the sale or modification of their fonts or collections.

RetroTxt by Ben Garrett (gmail)

RetroTxt ANSI logo by Zeus II

Fonts from

• The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack by Viler
• Retro Computer Fonts by Kreative Korp
• Typography articles by Damien Guard

• Atari Classic TrueType Fonts by Mark L. Simonson
• Atari ST 8x16 System by divVerent
• C64 TrueType by Style
• Cascadia by Microsoft
• IBM 3270 by Ricardo Banffy
• Intel One Mono by Intel Corp.
• Mona in the public domain
• MSX by Andy Teijelo Pérez
• Multi Platform Fonts by TrueSchool Ascii
• Plex by IBM Corp.
• Spleen by Frederic Cambus
• Unscii by Viznut

CSS framework by Bulma

Options icons by Google Material Design