
Progress is great if you share it with others, so I’m announcing the Ascension 2.0 public alpha | beta program today.

Take my hand and let us dive into the wonderful world of my current projects. Take a brief glimpse on the wonders at your feet.

Today my friend Gleb Dolgich (@glebd) released his brand new app BadPlastic on the Mac App Store. It’s the perfect tool for tracking your credit card debt and comes with a sexy UI, definitely worth checking out. The about box Gleb is using in here is the one I designed for Ascension 2 (SVEpicAboutBox).

We know Ascension is already great in displaying ASCII art on the Mac. Let’s talk about some of the key features I’m planning for upcoming Ascension releases.
Recent screenshot of my upcoming Mac OS X project Ascension. Some words about it’s progress: all colors of the ASCII content view are customizable now, including the hyperlink colors. Ascension will come with different themes and some cool retro styles known from the 8-bit era. What you see above will probably be the standard theme. We got a new toolbar and I prepared a variety of user preferences. I still have no release date for you guys, anyway most features I had on my version 1.0 roadmap are already implemented. Exercise patience young Padawan, we’re closer than ever before.
Screencast of Ascension performing live font color changes. Ascension is my upcoming ASCII art editor for Mac OS X, supporting .nfo, .diz, .asc and .txt files. Quite satisfied with the coding progress, we’re not far from release my friends. A high quality variant (1680x1050) is availabe here.