Ascension Changelog

What's new in Ascension 3.0.0 Build 107

Oct 17, 2015
  • Features include a completely rewritten backend, a redesigned UI and a heavily updated rendering framework. The app itself has been subject of countless improvements on it's way to reach this milestone. ASCII for example now renders with a new font (BlockZone) by default, which is a faithful, pixel-perfect recreation of the original DOS font.

New in Ascension 1.2.4 (Oct 14, 2011)

  • This update is all about performance.
  • New: Ascension is now multi-threaded (GCD).
  • New: Very memory-efficient thanks migration to ARC.
  • New: Rendering is noticeably faster.
  • New: Menu entry / key equivalent for toggling full screen mode.
  • Change: Correction of a non-working hyperlink in credits.
  • Change: Reference to the new MIT-style license in credits.

New in Ascension 1.2.2 (Jul 28, 2011)

  • If a document has never been changed, the file information popover will be referencing the modification date as "untouched file". Earlier versions simply displayed the same date as the creation date. A typo in the preferences has been corrected as well.

New in Ascension 1.0.3 (Dec 26, 2010)

  • Eliminated a bug that applied wrong theme colors on encoding changes
  • Menu item “Save as…” is now “Export…” to match the toolbar entry
  • Subclassed NSTextView to be more flexible for future implementations
  • Wiped a bug that occured when themes were reordered
  • Immediate linkification of pasted hyperlinks