Re: [MiNT] MyMan

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Eero Tamminen <oak@helsinkinet.fi> wrote:
>
>> NB: The myman-0.7.0 executable in the binary archive is stand-alone, you
>> can test it without extracting the other files.
>
> Btw. If you're into text-only stuff with colors, there are also
> - "slsc" spreadsheet,
> - "slrn" news reader,
> - "mutt" mail reader,
> - "mmail" BBS mail reader,
> - "lynx" and "w3m" WWW-browsers,
> - "midnight commander" file browser,
> - "minicom" serial terminal,
> - "funktracker" mod tracker,
> - different text mode CD-players,
> - "ccal" calender,
> - "xaos" fractal zoomer,
>
> and if somebody ports libaa or (newer) libcaca, even doom & quake & video
> players:
>         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAlib
>         http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca
>
> (I've tried all of them in the 90's. :-))
>
>
> Some of them may be Linux specific though (funktracker and CD-players
> most likely are such).  "mutt" and text www-browsers are probably most
> worthwhile.
>
> I guess some of them are already in the sparemint archives?
>
>
>         - Eero
>
I think aalib was one of the fist libs ported to MiNT, back when it
was still text only.
http://sparemint.org/sparemint/html/packages.html

According to the following its up to date:
http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/