Welcome to "Asciiville" -- a massive collection of Ascii art and Linux terminal utilities

Date:
Thu, 19 May 2022 17:50:02 GMT

Description:
Because ASCII is cool.

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A new project provides a large collection of pre-existing, Linux command line utilities ranging from ASCII art tools to email and games and compliments those with collections of ASCII art. Topped off with a stylized, ASCII menu system for accessing everything.

Welcome to Asciiville .

The documentation for Asciiville describes itself thusly:

Asciiville is where you go for ASCII Art, animations, and utilities. The Asciiville project provides integration and extension of several packages as well as providing convenience commands to invoke a variety of components used to display ASCII Art, animations, and text based utilities to perform common operations in a text-only environment.

Asciiville is, in a way, almost a complete distribution of terminal software with a heavy emphasis on ASCII art style.

The developer has created a Welcome to Asciiville video that reminds me ASCII / ANSI art demo videos from years past. For Asciiville style is king. And thats not a bad thing.

Asciiville integration is provided for a whole bunch of different command
line tools. Many of these are worth checking out and using by themselves (even if you decide to not use them as part of the Asciiville project ).

btop , character based system monitor

cbftp , character based FTP client

ddgr , command line web search

jrnl , a simple command line journal application

w3m , another character based web browser

lynx , character based web browser

mutt , character based email client

neomutt , character based email client

newsboat , character based RSS feed reader

ranger , character based file manager

gdu , character based disk usage analyzer

got , text based translation tool

mpcplus , featureful ncurses based Music Player client

mplayer , a media player

asciimatics - automatically display a variety of character based animation effects

asciinema - automatically create ascii character based video clips

rainbowstream - command line character based Twitter client

See the rainbowstream usage manual to get started

mapscii , zoomable map of the world

cmatrix , screen from "The Matrix"

nethack , ASCII text dungeon game

ninvaders , ASCII text version of Space Invaders

tetris , ASCII text version of Tetris

tmux , a terminal multiplexer

wttr.in , console-oriented weather report

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