X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,4412430252ee8546 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-13 11:37:26 PST From: Neil Franklin Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: aalib (was Re: New Jave Animation) Date: 13 Jul 2001 20:37:57 +0200 Organization: My own Private Self Lines: 22 Message-ID: <6u66cw3cai.fsf_-_@chonsp.franklin.ch> References: <3B475A61.5EE5C845@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <36mkktsgcgr748uksia32j3epv6e583csl@4ax.com> <3B4AA705.18B12455@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <3b4ad523$0$1001$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> X-Complaints-To: news@chonsp.franklin.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Jul 2001 18:37:57 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 NNTP-Posting-Host: ascension.ethz.ch X-Trace: 13 Jul 2001 20:37:22 +0200, ascension.ethz.ch Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!enews.sgi.com!news-zh.switch.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!chonsp.franklin.ch!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:6655 Eli the Bearded <*@qz.little-neck.ny.us> writes: > For reasonably powerful terminals (able to display regular, bright, and > dim text, for example) with high-speed connections (or running locally) > aalib (google for it) tries to provide a standard graphics library with > an ascii-art display device. Pretty fun stuff, but I've never tried > programming with it. > aalib is definately X Windows and probably Linux centric aalib is definitely _not_ X centric. First time I saw it was on the text console of an Linux box with no X installed on it (486 Notebook with 8M RAM and piddling small HD). And it is most likely not Linux centric either. Just needs an terminal it understands. May be VT100/ANSI centric (or even dependant). -- Neil Franklin, neil@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/ Hacker, Unix Guru, El Eng HTL/BSc, Sysadmin, Archer, Roleplayer - Intellectual Property is Intellectual Robbery