What does this software do then ?
=================================

	BB is an high quality audio-visual demonstration for your text
terminal. It is portable demo, so you can run it on plenty of operating
systems and DOS.

Supports: dos (VGA + MDA), stdio, curses, slang, X11, gpm, linux-console
Sound:  OSS, Sun audio, SGI, DEC Aplha, AIX, HP-UX, DOS (GUS CLASSIC, GUS
        CLASSIC, GUS MAX, GUS ACE, GUS PNP, SB, ESS, PC-buzzer

How this all started
====================

   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 ...


AA-Project
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Three goals of AA-Project:

  1. Port all important software (like Doom, Second Reality, X windows
     etc..) on AA-lib.

  2. Port AA-lib on all available platforms (mainly ZX-Spectrum and
     Sharp).

  3. Force IBM to start manufacturing MDA cards again.

   AA-project was started by Jan Hubicka. In that times just a few
people knew about it. Then a new demo named BB has been relased to show
the power of AA-lib technology. Now the project is freely available and
anyone can help.

Where to find BB
================

   All programs covered under AA-project can be obtained at
`http://aa-project.sourceforge.net'.

Support us:
===========

   We decided to distribute all of our aa-related programs freely (see
COPYING for details). If you want to help us more (so we could develop
more such software) send a small amount (or big one ;-) to AA/BB team.
In that case, write us for further instructions...

kupsaf@feld.cvut.cz (Filip Kupsa)
hubicka@freesoft.cz (Jan Hubicka)
titania@horac.ta.jcu.cz (Mojmir Svoboda)
toman@atrax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz (Kamil Toman)

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 ============================================================================
 miniLZO -- mini version of the LZO real-time data compression library
 ============================================================================

 Author  : Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer
           <markus.oberhumer@jk.uni-linz.ac.at>
           http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/Staff/lux/marco/lzo.html
 Version : 1.00
 Date    : 13-Jul-1997

 I've created miniLZO for projects where it is inconvenient to
 include (or require) the full LZO source code just because you
 want to add a little bit of data compression to your application.

 miniLZO implements the LZO1X-1 compressor and both the standard and
 safe LZO1X decompressor. Apart from fast compression it also useful
 for situations where you want to use pre-compressed data files (which
 must have been compressed with LZO1X-999).

 miniLZO consists of one C source file and two header files:
    minilzo.c
    minilzo.h
    ../include/lzoconf.h

 To use miniLZO just copy these files into your source directory, add
 minilzo.c to your Makefile and #include minilzo.h from your program.

 minilzo.o compiles to about 6 kB (using gcc or Watcom C on a i386), and
 the sources are about 14 kB when packed with zip - so there's no more
 excuse that your application doesn't support data compression :-)

 For more information, documentation and other support files (like Makefiles
 and build scripts) please download the full LZO package from
    http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/Staff/lux/marco/lzo.html

 Have fun,
  Markus



 Appendix A: building miniLZO
 ----------------------------
 miniLZO is written such a way that it (hopefully) should compile
 and run out-of-the box on most machines.

 If you are running on an unusual architecture and lzo_init() fails then
 you should first recompile with `-DLZO_DEBUG' to see what causes the
 failure. The most probable case is that sizeof(char *) != sizeof(long).

 After identifying the problem you can workaround by adding some defines
 like `-DSIZEOF_CHAR_P=8' to your Makefile.
 The best solution is (of course) using Autoconf - if your project uses
 Autoconf anyway just add `-DMINILZO_HAVE_CONFIG_H' to your compiler
 flags. See the LZO distribution for an example how to set up `configure.in'.


 Appendix B: list of public functions available in miniLZO
 ---------------------------------------------------------

 Library initialization
    lzo_init()

 Compression
    lzo1x_1_compress()

 Decompression
    lzo1x_decompress()
    lzo1x_decompress_safe()

 Checksum functions
    lzo_adler32()

 Version functions
    lzo_version()
    lzo_version_string()
    lzo_version_date()

 Portable (but slow) string functions
    lzo_memcmp()
    lzo_memcpy()
    lzo_memset()




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