A new project provides a large collection of pre-existing, Linux command line utilities — ranging from ASCII art tools to email and games — and compliments those with collections of ASCII art. Topped off with a stylized, ASCII menu system for accessing everything.

Welcome… to Asciiville.

The documentation for Asciiville describes itself thusly:

Asciiville is where you go for ASCII Art, animations, and utilities. The Asciiville project provides integration and extension of several packages as well as providing convenience commands to invoke a variety of components used to display ASCII Art, animations, and text based utilities to perform common operations in a text-only environment.

Asciiville is, in a way, almost a complete distribution of terminal software… with a heavy emphasis on ASCII art style.

The developer has created a “Welcome to Asciiville” video that reminds me ASCII / ANSI art demo videos from years past. For Asciiville… style is king. And that’s not a bad thing.

Asciiville integration is provided for a whole bunch of different command line tools. Many of these are worth checking out and using by themselves (even if you decide to not use them as part of the Asciiville project).

btop, character based system monitor
cbftp, character based FTP client
ddgr, command line web search
jrnl, a simple command line journal application
w3m, another character based web browser
lynx, character based web browser
mutt, character based email client
neomutt, character based email client
newsboat, character based RSS feed reader
ranger, character based file manager
gdu, character based disk usage analyzer
got, text based translation tool
mpcplus, featureful ncurses based Music Player client
mplayer, a media player
asciimatics - automatically display a variety of character based animation effects
asciinema - automatically create ascii character based video clips
rainbowstream - command line character based Twitter client
- See the rainbowstream usage manual to get started
mapscii, zoomable map of the world
cmatrix, screen from "The Matrix"
nethack, ASCII text dungeon game
ninvaders, ASCII text version of Space Invaders
tetris, ASCII text version of Tetris
tmux, a terminal multiplexer
wttr.in, console-oriented weather report

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