1 2 Since version 1.0 was very broken (released in a hurry) there 3is bugfixing 1.1. Only known problem at the moment is that aaflip 4don't work at non intel platforms. There is many fixes and also 5some new features. Most notable are MS-DOS version, support for 6all p?m file formats, user interface for aaflip and asciiview 7script that browses many image formats using ImageMagick or NetPBM 8tools. 9 10What does this software do then ? 11================================= 12 13 aview is an high quality ascii-art image(pnm) browser and 14animation(fli/flc) player usefull especially with lynx browser. 15 16Supports: dos (VGA + MDA), stdio, curses, slang, X11, gpm, linux-console 17 18Features 19======== 20 o High quality ascii art rendering 21 o Portable 22 o Save into many formats (html, text, ansi, more/less etc...) 23 o Contrast, Bright, Gamma control 24 o Image zooming/unzooming 25 o Three dithering modes 26 o Hidden "bonus" features :) 27 o Inversion 28 o Support for bright, dim, inverse attributes/extended 29 character set 30 31What is PNM file format? 32======================== 33 34 PNM if an graphics format similiar to GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and 35others. Aview uses it because of its simplicity. Many free or shareware 36conversion tools from other graphics format exist (ImageMagick, NetPBM 37for UNIX, alchemy for DOS and others.) So you should use aview to 38browse images in many graphics format. UNIX version has script that 39does conversion automatically (using eighter NetPBM (preffered way) 40or ImageMagic conversion program. FIFO is used to do not waste your 41disc space so conversion is fully transparent. Under DOS and other 42operating systems you probably need to do it yourself. 43 44ChangeLog 45========= 46 o Fixed bugs in Makefile 47 o Do not require efence anymore 48 o Configure script 49 o Fixed memory leak in flip.c 50 o Hide cursor 51 o Extended documentation 52 o Faster animation preloading 53 o Uses faster memcpy/memset functions 54 o image.c now reads P1 - P6 file formats (pgm, ppm, pnm both raw/ascii) 55 o gifview obsoleted by asciiview - new script that uses eighter 56 imagemagick or netpbm tools to convert image using fifo. 57 So it is fast and saves memory/disk space 58 o Added some keys into aaflip - contrast, bright, gamma tunning etc. 59 Press 'H' for help 60 61Where to find Aview 62=================== 63 64 Just join our mailing list: `aa@horac.ta.jcu.cz'. Send: 65subscribe aa 66to majordomo@horac.ta.jcu.cz 67 68 All programs covered under AA-project can be obtained at 69`ftp://ftp.ta.jcu.cz://pub/aa'. 70 71 Or just browse our homepage at `http://www.ta.jcu.cz://aa'. A ton of 72examples of ascii-art generated by aalib, pointers to other AA-Project 73resources etc. 74 75AA-Project 76========== 77 78 dT8 8Tb 79 dT 8 8 Tb 80 dT 8 8 Tb 81 <PROJECT><PROJECT> 82 dT 8 8 Tb 83 dT 8 8 Tb 84 85Three goals of AA-Project: 86 87 1. Port all important software (like Doom, Second Reality, X windows 88 etc..) on AA-lib. 89 90 2. Port AA-lib on all available platforms (mainly ZX-Spectrum and 91 Sharp). 92 93 3. Force IBM to start manufacturing MDA cards again. 94 95 AA-project was started by Jan Hubicka. In that times just a few 96people knew about it. Then a new demo named BB has been relased to show 97the power of AA-lib technology. Now the project is freely available and 98anyone can help. 99 100