Asciiquarium

Asciiquarium is an aquarium/sea animation in ASCII art.
Enjoy the mysteries of the sea from the safety of your own terminal!

Original by Kirk Baucom kbaucom@schizoid.com
https://robobunny.com/projects/asciiquarium/html

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Installation

Asciiquarium 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.

Dependencies

Asciiquarium depends on the Term::Animation perl module, which depends on Curses. You can get both modules from http://search.cpan.org. This program will only run on platforms that have a Curses library (so it won't work on Windows, but you might get it to run under cygwin).

Installing dependencies on debian/ubuntu:

sudo apt install perl-modules libcurses-perl
sudo cpan -i Term::Animation

Usage

Options:
  -c --classic      Only show species from Asciiquarium 1.0
  -t --transparent  Transparent background
  -s --screensaver  Exit on any keypress
  -h --help         Print help and exit
  -v --version      Print version and exit

Hotkeys:
  q  quit
  r  redraw
  p  pause

Historical

Asciiquarium was originally written by Kirk Baucom (homepage).
Many changes from different people were integrated into the application.

The original version of this program is available at:
http://robobunny.com/projects/asciiquarium

Claudio Matsuoka's fork is available at:
https://github.com/cmatsuoka/asciiquarium