NFO Viewer Alternatives
NFO Viewer is described as 'simple viewer for NFO files, which are “ASCII” art in the CP437 codepage. The advantages of using NFO Viewer instead of a text editor are preset font and encoding settings, automatic window size and clickable hyperlinks'. There are five alternatives to NFO Viewer for Windows and Mac. The best alternative is iNFekt NFO Viewer, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like NFO Viewer are NFOPad (Free), DAMN NFO Viewer (Free), Yet Another NFO Viewer (Free) and ACiD View (Free, Open Source).
- A text viewer application that has been carefully designed around its main task: viewing and presenting NFO files. It comes with three different view modes (Rendered, Classic and Text Only), export functionality and lots of options!
Discontinued
Last version is 1.0.1 (Dec 3rd 2017)
- NFOPad is a small, fast and flexible combined text editor and nfo viewer. It is a clone of Microsoft's Notepad but much more customizable and with some additional features. NFOPad fully supports Unicode as well as nfo files with ASCII art.
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
NFOPad vs NFO Viewer opinions
fosam Does the same job as NFO Viewer - DAMN NFO Viewer is an utility designed for viewing text files containing ASCII Art (e.g. nfo files), and it proved itself to be handy.
Discontinued
The program is no longer updated. Last version, 2.10, released in 2017, can be still downloaded from Softpedia
- The Yet Another NFO Viewer or simply YaNvi is intended to be a small, light and hopefully fast tool to properly view ASCII artwork files in DOS encoding (with extensions NFO, ASC and DIZ).
- ACiD View 6 is a multimedia viewer for Windows. Its the first to support a variety of both textmode and bitmap graphic formats such as ANSI/ASCII, XBIN, GIF, JPEG and PNG. Additional features include a modem-speed simulator, VGA previewing, and more!.