- Name : libcaca
- Homepage : http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca
- Why ? libcaca turns pixels into text, with various improvements over the AAlib library. More details are available on the homepage. It provides a librari along with various tools, such aw cacaview, which allows to turn image files into ASCII art. It can also be used with VLC to provide an ASCII video output.
- Open Source? Yes, under the WTFPL license
- Tarball : http://caca.zoy.org/files/libcaca/libcaca-0.99.beta19.tar.gz
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | JoshStrobl | T1383 libcaca | |||
| Resolved | JoshStrobl | T1871 libcaca |
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Hasn't seen a release in over two years and even that release is just a beta. Outside of the feature in VLC, is it used elsewhere that is legitimately useful and needed?
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The dosbox game "Rise of the Triad" from gog.com needs this library to run. I get the error message:
"error while loading shared libraries: libcaca.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
when I try to run it. I assume other older dos games might need it too.