WeatherSpect 1.6 review
DownloadWeatherSpect provides a reasonably accurate simulation of what the weather looks like outside, in ASCII art
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WeatherSpect provides a reasonably accurate simulation of what the weather looks like outside, in ASCII art. WeatherSpect includes rain, snow, lightning, sleet, and hail.
The windspeed and cloudiness are reflected in the velocity and quantity of clouds. There are trees that age, reproduce and die over the course of an hour, and a sun and moon that slowly cross the sky for 12 hours each. There's also a dancing turtle.
Installation:
WeatherSpect is a single perl script, so all you have to do is make sure it's executable and put it somewhere convenient, like /usr/local/bin or /usr/local/games.
Usage:
Before weatherspect will work, you have to create a config file for it. Running it with the -c option will prompt you for info to create a config file in ~/.weatherspect.
weatherspect [-f < config_file >]
weatherspect -c [-f < config file >]
weatherspect -h
-h Print this help message
-f < file > Supply a config file to use instead of the default
-c Generate a config file
While weatherspect is running, the following commands are available:
q Quit
u Force an update of weather data
r Redraw. Note that this will remove all objects and recreate them, probably in
different places. It is intended to be used after resizing the screen.
Requirements:
You must have the Term::Animation and Weather::Underground modules, which you can get from http://www.cpan.org. The Term::Animation module also requires the Curses module, which you can also get from CPAN.
What's New in This Release:
Updated to work with Weather::Underground 3.02
Added a sky and horizon
Added moon phases
Made the sun and moon follow sun/moon rise/set
Made the number of clouds scale based on the size of the sky
Added a variety of fruit trees
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