AA Helper Library 0.1 review

AA Helper Library is a basic library of helper functions for AAlib. Inspiration that started this is AAJM, when I implemented circ

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 18K Developer: Chunky Kibbles

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AA Helper Library is a basic library of helper functions for AAlib.

Inspiration that started this is AAJM, when I implemented circles and lines. More or less on a whim, I turned it into a more convincing project.

Yes, I'm fully aware of the existence of libcaca. A few things:

1. Libcaca's picture definition isn't as good as aalib's - as the designer of libcaca stated, it's designed to make colors work right on ascii displays, rather than necessarily the shapes. For a simple example of this, run cacafire next to aafire on a screen at the same time

2. AA Helper addresses most of libcaca's other good points - sprites and graphics primitives, primarily

3. If you're at the point where you feel the urge to even start this argument, you've got bigger issues than whether or not a text-mode library is as good as another