libcaca
The libcaca library is a graphics library that outputs text instead of pixels, so that it can work on older video cards or text terminals. It is not unlike the famous AAlib library except it supports colour output.
| Tags | Software Development Libraries |
|---|---|
| Licenses | LGPL |
| Operating Systems | Windows Mac OS X Unix |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 09 Feb 2010 07:08
Release Notes: This release features new PHP and Java bindings and provides a conio.h reimplementation for porting DOS programs. The rendering engine adds support for triangle texture mapping, Unicode glyphs in the X11 driver, troff output, ANSI-coloured FIGlet fonts, and dirty rectangles for improved performance and visual effects.
- 18 Oct 2008 17:15
Release Notes: This bugfix release improves backwards compatibility by installing legacy headers.
- 27 Sep 2008 21:07
Release Notes: libcucul was merged back into libcaca for more clarity, but backwards compatibility was kept for both sources and binaries.
- 28 Nov 2007 19:11
Release Notes: The API was extended with device cursor support and canvasless display creation, and the event API was completely reworked. Complete Ruby bindings were added, the C# bindings were fully rewritten, and new Python sample code was added. Libcaca now also builds and runs under Visual Studio.
- 30 Sep 2007 07:48
Release Notes: The libcucul backend now supports 90-degree rotations of ASCII and Unicode art. The internal font has support for more Unicode blocks (Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms, Geometric Shapes, and Miscellaneous Symbols). The libcaca frontend has preliminary .NET bindings, a new Cocoa output driver for Mac OS X, and improved support for fallback output of Unicode art on an ASCII terminal.
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