First... the original README:
Asciiquarium v1.1
by Kirk Baucom <kbaucom@schizoid.com>
http://www.robobunny.com
Asciiquarium is an aquarium/sea animation in ASCII art.
Installation
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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.
Requirements
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You must have the Term::Animation module, which you can get from
http://www.cpan.org. The Term::Animation module also requires the Curses
module, which you can also get from CPAN. 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).
Usage
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There are no command line arguments.
While running:
q quit
r redraw (will recreate all entities)
p toggle pause
Contributors
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Pretty much all of the ASCII art was done by Joan Stark:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/
Anything that she didn't do, I don't have a source for.
OK, we're in 2020 and there's a ton of simple ways to install Perl modules
in a non-destructive way. Shameless plug: Installing Perl Modules. In
this spirit... this fork includes also a cpanfile to ease the
installation of the needed modules (you will still need to ensure that the
system libraries will be in place).
This repository is a fork from cmatsuoka's asciiquarium, with new fish species backported from the Android live wallpaper and other minor improvements by Claudio Matsuoka. It also merges contributions found in that repository's Pull Requests:
- Added objects from Kirk's version by driechers with art originally by Kirk Baucom
- Added yellow submarine by driechers with art originally by Carl Pilcher as found at https://ascii.co.uk/art/submarine
- Add sword fish by robert1003 with art from https://ascii.co.uk/art/fish