1What does this software do then ?
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3
4	BB is an high quality audio-visual demonstration for your text
5terminal. It is portable demo, so you can run it on plenty of operating
6systems and DOS.
7
8Supports: dos (VGA + MDA), stdio, curses, slang, X11, gpm, linux-console
9Sound:  OSS, Sun audio, SGI, DEC Aplha, AIX, HP-UX, DOS (GUS CLASSIC, GUS
10        CLASSIC, GUS MAX, GUS ACE, GUS PNP, SB, ESS, PC-buzzer
11
12How this all started
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14
15   Once upon a time we've (my friend Kamil and I) bought two old
16Herculeses as secondary monitors. We didn't know for that time that our
17Diamond Stealths 64 cards would become obsolete soon. The next day we
18downloaded the logo of Linux Texas Users Group - nice silly penguin
19looking like a cowboy! It was so exciting logo ... we decided that we
20couldn't live without it and we wanted to see it at boot time as a logo
21on our secondary monitors. There was a small problem - Hercules doesn't
22support color graphics. So we decided to convert the penguin image to
23ascii art using netpbm tools.
24
25   The output was very ugly because the converting algorithm was
26absolutly stupid.  During the night I designed a new convertor that
27used a font bitmap to creat an aproximation table. The output wasn't
28very good since the algorithm wasn't tuned so well. Many months this
29small piece of code was waiting on my disc for the day "D". Meanwhile I
30started a new project XaoS (a fractal zoomer) with my friend Thomas.
31And then I got an idea: Ascii Art Mandelbrots!  I was really impressed
32by the result! XaoS was faster, portable and looking much better than
33ever before. I found a new way to go ...
34
35
36AA-Project
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46Three goals of AA-Project:
47
48  1. Port all important software (like Doom, Second Reality, X windows
49     etc..) on AA-lib.
50
51  2. Port AA-lib on all available platforms (mainly ZX-Spectrum and
52     Sharp).
53
54  3. Force IBM to start manufacturing MDA cards again.
55
56   AA-project was started by Jan Hubicka. In that times just a few
57people knew about it. Then a new demo named BB has been relased to show
58the power of AA-lib technology. Now the project is freely available and
59anyone can help.
60
61Where to find BB
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63
64   All programs covered under AA-project can be obtained at
65`http://aa-project.sourceforge.net'.
66
67Support us:
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69
70   We decided to distribute all of our aa-related programs freely (see
71COPYING for details). If you want to help us more (so we could develop
72more such software) send a small amount (or big one ;-) to AA/BB team.
73In that case, write us for further instructions...
74
75kupsaf@feld.cvut.cz (Filip Kupsa)
76hubicka@freesoft.cz (Jan Hubicka)
77titania@horac.ta.jcu.cz (Mojmir Svoboda)
78toman@atrax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz (Kamil Toman)
79