AAHelper, Library for ASCII Games/Apps Released

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."

first?

[BinLadenMyHero]

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

You know what would be great?

[Ayanami Rei]

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.

TheDraw

[ptaff]

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 [helsinki.fi]. Those were the good old times, as anybody remembering ANSI music will tell.

Feel ready to own one or many Tux Stickers [ptaff.ca]?

Re:TheDraw

[WiKKeSH]

There are other GPL viewers and drawers available such as TundraDraw (available on sf for linux and windows) and PabloDraw (Windows-only)

Finally...

[sw155kn1f3]

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.

Interesting enough

[SavedLinuXgeeK]

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.