ANSI

[miunk]

http://www.acid.org/

Did anyone else used to do this? Any way I can make ANSI art on my o2?

[skywriter]

Any way I can make ANSI art on my o2?

emacs?

[miunk]

Hmm, is that similar to aciddraw? Just kidding. I have avoided learning emacs for so long it would be a shame to start now.

[skywriter]

after 23 years i can't do with anything else :)

[makkan77]

If I recall correctly or IIRC as I've just recently learned there is a open source ansi editor similar to AcidDraw that is called DuhDraw.

I too would also be interested in having duhdraw compiled for irix. I would also like to recommend you Ansi lovers out there to check out this nifty little frontend to various music players.

Camp

// Markus

[voidfoo]

i had the luck to compile a gcc mips-3 duhdraw. mipspro version always segment fault.

http://s92957900.onlinehome.us/packages/duhdraw.tar.gz

Edit. requires neko_ncurses.

[miunk]

How did you do it? I kept getting:

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rm -f duhdraw
gcc -O2 -s -Wall -L/usr/miunkware/lib -o duhdraw duhdraw.c -lncurses
ld32: Segmentation Fault.  Removing output file...


This is with ncurses 5.4 - which I compiled /w gcc - perhaps my ncurses libs are no good?

[nekonoko]

This is with ncurses 5.4 - which I compiled /w gcc - perhaps my ncurses libs are no good?

I've haven't tried compiling this so my observation is just academic - but is there a reason you have to use ncurses? Most things will let you link against the system curses library instead ( -lcurses ).

[voidfoo]

yes, i can confirm it works with -lcurses.

to use ncurses, i made some modifications to the Makefile (added -I and -L for nekoware ncurses) and changed #include <ncurses.h> to #include <ncurses/ncurses.h>. You can check the differences by comparing the source in my tarball with the original source.

[miunk]

Really how about with -lcurses? What does your makefile look like? I am getting another segfault. How can I debug ld32 segfaults?

[incognito]

thanks for the bin this should be a fun app to use

[voidfoo]

miunk, maybe you are right. duhdraw segfaults with -lcurses. just the viewer ansi works fine with -lcurses.

the beginning of my Makefile to use ncurses looks like this

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CC=gcc -O2 -I/usr/nekoware/include
STRIP=strip
LIBS= -L/usr/nekoware/lib -lncurses


I also changed #include <ncurses.h> to <ncurses/ncurses.h>, as mentioned above.

[miunk]

Thanks - adding the ncurses/ncurses.h was the key. I can run the program but the "splash screen" displays all jumbled - do I need to configure my winterm?

[voidfoo]

winterm (xwsh) wont work. you also need a capable font. i am using rxvt as term program, and vga font, set term=vt100 or vt220. i remember i got the font here. search the forums to see if you can find anything.

[miunk]

Much closer.

Fonts:

http://home.earthlink.net/~us5zahns/enl/ansifont.html

Downloaded the fonts, downloaded and compiled rxvt. I execute it from a xwsh winterm via:

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rxvt -fn vga -tn vt100 -fg white -bg black -display localhost:0.0

If I run the ansi program on one of the provided ansi files it looks great. When I start up the application it looks bad, but different than before (perhaps it is just a really bad splash screen?).

The major problem now is that the function keys (F1, F2, F3, etc.) don't work in the rxvt terminal duhdraw. Anyone know if this is a setting I can modify? Would I have better luck with aterm?