What is a .NFO file?
NFO is a plain-text information file, often with ASCII-art art from the warez and demo scene.
- Did you know
- Scene NFO files turned ASCII art into a badge of identity in the 1990s.
- The .nfo extension was coined by “Fabulous Furlough” of the warez group The Humble Guys, who used it in place of the usual README file.
- The elaborate logos rely on the box-drawing and block glyphs of IBM PC code page 437, so they only render correctly in that DOS character set.
- What Analyser shows you
- Open scene-release NFO files decoded from their native CP437 (IBM PC OEM) code page, so the box-drawing and block-character ASCII art renders the way it was authored instead of as garbled text.
- Open a .NFO file
- Drag a .NFO file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It opens entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.
- Related formats
- Browse the full list of supported file types.