13 Mar
2005
13 Mar
'05
9:10 p.m.
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 11:04:41 -0800 (PST), Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com> wrote:
AALIB is fully open-source software and is multi-platform. Many
multimedia software now supports AALIB as its presentation layer (my
favorite is aaxine).
http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/index.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/aa-project/
Runs on all *nix (AFAIK) and DOS.
I'm frequently running aaxine on a terminal emulator (one day I'll try
to hook a VT100 to my Linux box).
It's a bit perverse but you can actually watch VCD/DVD movies on a VT100!!!
Takes a bit of getting used too though, and you'd have to watch it
> I believe
hearing about (and seeing) a whole rendering of Star Wars for
> ASCII.
There's also AALIB, the 3D graphics system for (not kidding) from a distance...
:-)
/wai-sun