fire

The ancient DOOM fire animation in the terminal!

what?

fire is a remake of the PSX DOOM fire animation in the terminal, as seen in the ly display manager. It's described nicely by Fabien Sanglard on his blog.

where?

supported platforms

Linux (musl/glibc) (tested and supported)
Windows (should work, but not tested)
(Dragonfly|Net|Free|Open)BSD: (not tested, might work)

building from source

You will need:

git or wget
a c99 compiler (gcc or clang)
GNU Make (unknown if other makes will work)

Retrieve the source:

$ # via git:
$ git --recurse clone https://github.com/lptstr/fire
$
$ # via wget:
$ wget https://github.com/lptstr/fire/archive/master.tar.gz
$ tar xvf master.tar.gz

Build:

$ make

and install:

# make install

Uninstall, if you wish:

# make uninstall

how?

simply run ./fire (or fire, if you installed) and enjoy.

$ fire

why?

I'm bored

credits

Thanks to @cylgom, for inspiring me to make this project.
More thanks to @cylgom, from whose repositories I sto^Hborrowed a lot of stuff :)

license

This project is licensed under the MIT license. View the LICENSE.md file for more information.

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