[libcaca] Re: a conversion script, and patches for libcaca, and ttyvaders

["Ben Wiley Sittler" <bsittler@gmail.com>]

just finished an experimental port of MyMan to libcaca, and it's at:

http://zoehep.xent.com/~bsittler/myman-0.7pre1.tar.gz

to make it work well with current versions of libcaca required some
patching. i added more cp437 support in the x11 driver (all of box
drawings are now emulated) and required adding one character in the gl
driver (u+25a0). i also added support for latin-1 and unicode fonts in
the x11 driver, so e.g.

export CACA_FONT='-unknown-freemono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso10646-1'

will permit fairly complete unicode text display. here's the updated patch:

http://zoehep.xent.com/~bsittler/libcaca-trunk-1104.diff

this also includes the older patch for multi-frame sprite loading.

On 1/20/07, Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2007, Benjamin C. Wiley Sittler wrote:
>
> > i checked out the latest svn revisions of libcaca and ttyvaders, and lo
> > and behold -- ttyvaders had been replaced by the "rofl|rofl"
> > side-scroller! this would not do, so i revived(?) the regular game,
> > leaving the side-scroller as a pre-intro. this required patches to
> > libcaca and ttyvaders, and the creation of a new utility -- txt2caca.py
> > (sorry, it's python rather than c) for conversion from ttyvaders old
> > text-based animation format to the modern "caca" animation file format.
> > anyhow, here they are:
>
>    Thanks for your contributions! It's nice to see some interest from
> new people.
>
>    The main reason I'd like to change ttyvaders from a top-down scroller
> to a side scroller is that most terminals have 80 columns but only 24 or
> 25 lines, thus allowing for smoother horizontal scrolling. The ugly
> sprites are, as you may have guessed, because I did not convert previous
> sprites to the new format.
>
>    I'll review your patches and get back to you later.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Sam.
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