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I just saw him the other day at his home. I really hate to see these falsehoods repeated, especially since he isn't here to defend himself. I will tell him about this thread, though.
I think you should remove this link and correct your comments.
I am not a ghostty user, but I think it has a setting for that, if you can figure out which font iTerm2 is rendering those glyphs with.
XBIN files have been scattered around artscene packs since the 90s, but since it is directly tied to VGA hardware, it remains niche. Some people really like it. I have always found it tricky to work with.
I like to think the DUR (durdraw) format can be adopted or extended to describe most text art, though custom font support like Xbin is not in the current version. I also like to think that DUR's JSON core makes it easier for mortals and programmers to play with than SAUCE's dense binary format (and ANSI escape codes, even), but that's a bit subjective.
Other modern editors are Moebius and IcyDraw (part of Icytools).
It also includes a program called "durview" for just viewing instead of editing the files. It works quite nicely for browsing the live 16colo.rs archive.
Since Durdraw and Durview automatically convert from CP437 to Utf-8, you don't need a custom font. It's very nice.
For leaving on the screen, you can load the ANSI file in Durdraw, then save it as a Utf-8 ANSI. That converts the character encoding to be Linux compatible. Then you can just "cat" the file from the console.