
A syntax highlighting text editor for Mac OS X. Beautiful. Contemporary. All you ever needed. Product availability? When it’s done.

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.
Ascension 1.0.3 has been released today. You could describe this as a bugfix release, nearly no new features were added. The current build is not beta anymore, I wiped the last issues I encountered and Ascension should run smooth and stable.
I managed to do things even better and released Ascension 1.0.1 beta 2 today. You won’t recognize it at a first glance, but a lot has changed under the hood, thanks to your reports and overwhelming feedback. I’m quite sure the goal of creating the best ASCII art / NFO viewer (and editor) for Mac OS X is already reached. Unfortunately I did neither find time yet to create a project page nor to publish a gallery, but a recent screenshot can be found here. A project page will be available soon.
My ASCII Art viewer and editor for Mac has finally been released. For now Ascension supports NFO, DIZ and TXT files. Of course it can handle Unicode documents. Follow the link to browse the repository and get the beta. I will update my project site here as soon as possible. Let me know if anything is not working as expected.
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.
The spinning Galaxy in my mug
“Wadi Adad” (Arabic:وادي أضاد), Akakus Mountains, Libya
The name of the big natural statue is Adad or Adhadh, and it means ‘finger’ or...
Near El Chalten, Santa Cruz, Argentina
(by Jordi Brió)