This is AA-Project's classic Demo "BB" with some fixes applied to allow it to build on modern Macs and run at absurdly high resolutions (2880x1800 text mode!).
How to build:
brew install libmikmod aalib
./configure; make; make install
Note: ./configure sometimes needs the path to libmikmod passed manually. This can be done with --with-libmikmod-prefix=[prefix].
BB is an high quality audio-visual demonstration for your text
terminal. It is portable demo, so you can run it on plenty of operating systems and DOS.
Supports: dos (VGA + MDA), stdio, curses, slang, X11, gpm, linux-console Sound: OSS, Sun audio, SGI, DEC Aplha, AIX, HP-UX, DOS (GUS CLASSIC, GUS CLASSIC, GUS MAX, GUS ACE, GUS PNP, SB, ESS, PC-buzzer
Once upon a time we've (my friend Kamil and I) bought two old Herculeses as secondary monitors. We didn't know for that time that our Diamond Stealths 64 cards would become obsolete soon. The next day we downloaded the logo of Linux Texas Users Group - nice silly penguin looking like a cowboy! It was so exciting logo ... we decided that we couldn't live without it and we wanted to see it at boot time as a logo on our secondary monitors. There was a small problem - Hercules doesn't support color graphics. So we decided to convert the penguin image to ascii art using netpbm tools.
The output was very ugly because the converting algorithm was absolutly stupid. During the night I designed a new convertor that used a font bitmap to creat an aproximation table. The output wasn't very good since the algorithm wasn't tuned so well. Many months this small piece of code was waiting on my disc for the day "D". Meanwhile I started a new project XaoS (a fractal zoomer) with my friend Thomas. And then I got an idea: Ascii Art Mandelbrots! I was really impressed by the result! XaoS was faster, portable and looking much better than ever before. I found a new way to go ...
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Three goals of AA-Project:
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Port all important software (like Doom, Second Reality, X windows etc..) on AA-lib.
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Port AA-lib on all available platforms (mainly ZX-Spectrum and Sharp).
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Force IBM to start manufacturing MDA cards again.
AA-project was started by Jan Hubicka. In that times just a few people knew about it. Then a new demo named BB has been relased to show the power of AA-lib technology. Now the project is freely available and anyone can help.
All programs covered under AA-project can be obtained at `http://aa-project.sourceforge.net'.
We decided to distribute all of our aa-related programs freely (see COPYING for details). If you want to help us more (so we could develop more such software) send a small amount (or big one ;-) to AA/BB team. In that case, write us for further instructions...
kupsaf@feld.cvut.cz (Filip Kupsa) hubicka@freesoft.cz (Jan Hubicka) titania@horac.ta.jcu.cz (Mojmir Svoboda) toman@atrax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz (Kamil Toman)