petsrv PETSCII Server

petsrv PETSCII SERVER

petsrv is a small http server that generates png images from the C64's rom font. It can be used to sprinkle web pages with petscii graphics, without having to use a graphics program or screen grabber to draw them.

Open source - runs on Windows, MacOS X, and unix compatibles.
You can specify foreground color, background color, and either can be transparent.
You can use both the upper case and the lower case charset.
You can select a zoom level from 1 to 4 (8x8 to 32x32 pixel font).
All characters accessible through $xx hex codes.

Play with the parameters and enter some text.

Foreground	Background	Font	Zoom

petsrv-b2.tar.gz, 9 kB.: Beta 2 source code.

Exactly how you use petsrv depends on a few things like which server you're running and if you have a firewall. petsrv listens to port 8064 by default, and if you don't have a firewall or a NAT:ing router inbetween you and the rest of the world, you can just run it exposed on a public port. However, since on the fly generation of PNGs is somewhat costly, I recommend that you set up a caching proxy. If you're using Apache to serve your web pages and you run petsrv on the same machine, I've been told that something like this should do the trick:

  ProxyRequests Off
  ProxyPass /petscii http://localhost:8064/petscii
  ProxyPassReverse /petscii http://localhost:8064/petscii

You can contact me at magervalp@fastmail.fm.

petsrv is released under a BSD license:

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

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