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
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.
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
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
t toggle transparency
space, add new entity
followed by:
b big fish
B suBmarine
d dolphins
D Ducks
h fishhook
m monster
O swOrd
r random
s ship
S Shark
w whale
W sWan
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