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I love terminals, but I have to say, I kind of hate this sort of thing? Where you need at least 256 colors, GPU acceleration, and 240 columns x 80 lines? At that point it's just a curiosity, anywhere you could do that in a terminal you could do it easier and better in a graphical window. I want my terminal apps to actually still work in an 80x24 monochrome VT220 at 19200 baud. I want them to use termcap instead of hardcoding xterm's extensions to ANSI.


I wonder if there is a similar, more lightweight library that has cool effects that work with the minimum specs you've specified?


AAlib can probably be used for that, although it doesn't have those text effects coded.

The demo, BB, should be more like it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ukhOAUseKY

AAlib, as far as I know, works in VT220.




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