Software
- AA-lib homepage
- BB-the portable demo
- AAvga - an SVGAlib wrapper
- Aview - an high quality ascii art browser/animation player
- AA group homepage (demo group that created BB)
- Random dot stereogram generator
Software known to support AA
- ttyquake (Whats that?)
- Simple DIrectmedia Layer (popular GFX library)
- dumb (Doom clone)
- Hasciicam ((h)ascii for the masses!)
- apron (mpeg1 player)
- aatv (aatv (ascii art TV) is an application that lets you watch TV in a text console)
- The LameOver Linux Demo Project
- GIMP (General image manipulation program)
- Tomby's 3d engine (DOS only)
- XaoS - an realtime fractal zoomer
History of AA-project
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 ...