What is the best/your favorite .NFO file viewer?

**SonsOfLiberty** · 09-18-2009, 08:40 PM

Most people just want to read the "install notes" you really don't need a 3rd part app for that....but I like seeing the art, and I create alot myself, a new NFO for me almost on everything I release.

Well I took the liberty and Googling it for people....

These are all the "known" NFO viewers and editiors out there:

http://www.defacto2.net/nfo-files.cfm

NFO software

Windows

ArtCine NFO Creator An NFO editor for films. Freeware.
Compact NFO Viewer An NFO/DIZ/TXT file viewer. Freeware.
DAMN NFO Viewer An NFO file viewer. Program was abandoned. Freeware.
DIZzy A simple NFO/DIZ file viewer. Freeware.
iNFO A small viewer for NFO, DIZ, and other ASCII art files. GPL.
GetDiz An NFO/DIZ/TXT editor/viewer. Freeware.
NFOView A simple NFO file viewer.
PabloView An NFO file viewer. Program is unfinished.
NFO2TXT Converts NFO files to TXT files. Freeware.
Notepad2 Mod Notepad2 mod with code folding and NFO support. Open Source.
NFOpad A full-featured NFO/DIZ/TXT editor/viewer. Freeware.
ViewNFO An NFO/DIZ/TXT file viewer. Freeware.

Linux

NFO Viewer A simple viewer for NFO files. GPL

Mac OS X

NFO Viewer OS X NFO Viewer.

Platform independent

NFOmation Online NFO Text View and PNG converter with hosting support.
nfo2png Online NFO to PNG converter with hosting support.
Ansilove/PHP A set of tools to convert ANSI and artscene related file formats into PNG images. PHP server required. GPL
NFO To BMP and NFO To PNG customizable PHP scripts. PHP server required. GPL

Screensaver NFO

http://www.defacto2.net/download.cfm...13D04340A10-EN

Also, DAMN and AciD View are the best IMO.

http://www.defacto2.net/nfo-files.cfm

Scene news: http://www.defacto2.net/index.cfm

More info here on viewers, scroll to the bottom:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.nfo

Note there are the most update pages you will find on NFO viewers.

Here's some "online" makers too:

http://ascii.mastervb.net/
http://www.glassgiant.com/ascii/
http://www.degraeve.com/img2txt.php
http://www.network-science.de/ascii/

Attached are some NFO art I've did over the years, I had a bunch more, but can't find them, and I had a bunch of scene ones' like scene notices and scene farewells, but they disappeared to.

**Il_Professore** · 10-02-2009, 02:19 PM

I open them with EditPlus,a good text editor.

**warhacker** · 10-04-2009, 06:06 PM

Damn Nfo viewer

**invitestor** · 12-02-2009, 09:53 AM

Notepad :-)

**anon** · 12-02-2009, 04:10 PM

Notepad with the Fixedsys Excelsior font. Terminal is better, but it lacks a lot of special characters, and I don't want to switch fonts all the time.