AAHelper, Library for ASCII Games/Apps Released

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AAHelper, Library for ASCII Games/Apps Released

Posted by michael on Thursday September 30, 2004 @03:40AM from the a-to-z dept.

Ravalox writes "AA Helper Library, which is a set of libraries to assist in the development of AA-Lib games/applications, has made its initial release. It currently provides a few graphics primitives and a render-to-frame function so you can get a normal image out of AA-Lib. If like me you are an ascii video fan another helpful ascii library is libcaca which is currently supported in Video Lan Media Player and Mplayer."

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first? by BinLadenMyHero · 2004-09-30 04:05 · Score: 4, Funny

FFFFFFFFF PPPPPPPP FF PP PP FF PP PP FFFFFF PPPPPPPP FF PP FF PP FF PP FF PP i love the ability to preview a divx download remotely on a text terminal
1. Re:first? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-30 05:28 · Score: 0
  
  thats classic
libcaca by Leffe · 2004-09-30 04:10 · Score: 0, Redundant

Reminds me of libcaca.

An ascii art library with colors and whatever else, sprites, primitives, etc.

You can use it with MPlayer or your video player of choice, looks much better with colors.
1. Re:libcaca by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-30 04:12 · Score: 0
  
  Oops! Oh well, I'm sure everyone here has read the first few words of a story and posted some redundant comment at least once :)
You know what would be great? by Ayanami+Rei · 2004-09-30 04:47 · Score: 1

A version of aalib that used the Mona font.

Hell, a posting mode on Slashdot that wrapped the comment in Mona font tags. Ooooooh boy, the GNAA would love it though, so I guess that'll never happen.

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1. Re:You know what would be great? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-30 22:07 · Score: 0
  
  agreed!
Idea... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-30 04:50 · Score: 0

I want to see an AA-based DVD player. :-)
TheDraw by ptaff · 2004-09-30 05:08 · Score: 4, Informative

For those who created real ASCII art back in the days of the BBS, there exists a GPL clone of TheDraw to bring back memories (and maybe dust your 5.25" floppies) called DuhDraw. Those were the good old times, as anybody remembering ANSI music will tell.

Feel ready to own one or many Tux Stickers?
1. Re:TheDraw by WiKKeSH · 2004-09-30 07:55 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  There are other GPL viewers and drawers available such as TundraDraw (available on sf for linux and windows) and PabloDraw (Windows-only)
  
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Finally... by sw155kn1f3 · 2004-09-30 05:25 · Score: 1, Funny

I can complete my space shooter I've been working on.
Oh wait.. It was in '80s. But still good to know they made such great progress - gonna change the whole gaming industry.

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Interesting enough by SavedLinuXgeeK · 2004-10-05 02:56 · Score: 1

If you can get the console resolution high enough, and utilize extended character encodings, and sit, just back from your computer a little ways, the quality of the aa video vs. an actual video isn't that bad. Which means that if you end up doing games in console, with a hi-res framebuffer, you could actually have some games that may contend with opengl. Who knows, but it looks promising.

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