1What does this software do then ? 2================================= 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 13==================== 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 37========== 38 39 dT8 8Tb 40 dT 8 8 Tb 41 dT 8 8 Tb 42 <PROJECT><PROJECT> 43 dT 8 8 Tb 44 dT 8 8 Tb 45 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 62================ 63 64 All programs covered under AA-project can be obtained at 65`http://aa-project.sourceforge.net'. 66 67Support us: 68=========== 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