BB(6)

💖 bb(6) — the Games Manual glow-up 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the bb page from the Games Manual section 6, and honestly? it's giving terminal chaos in the best way. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

bb — an ASCII-art demo 🎨✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bb [options]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

bb is a high quality audio-visual demonstration for your text terminal. no cap, that's literally what it is — a whole audiovisual moment happening inside your terminal like it's the main character 👑

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

here's the summary of the options, bestie. for a complete description you gotta type bb -help — that's the full tea ☕

• -help — shows you the summary of options. the "hey what does this do again" button 🙈
• -loop — plays the demo in an infinite loop. it never ends. it's literally forever. slay 🔁
• -driver — selects the driver. available drivers: linux, slang, X11, stdout, stderr.
• -kbddriver — selects the keyboard driver. available drivers: slang, X11, stdin.
• -mousedriver — selects the mouse driver. available drivers: X11, gpm, dos.
• -width — sets the width.
• -height — sets the height.
• -minwidth — sets the minimum width.
• -minheight — sets the minimum height.
• -maxwidth — sets the maximum width.
• -maxheight — sets the maximum height.
• -recwidth — sets the recommended width.
• -recheight — sets the recommended height.
• -dim — enables usage of the dim (half bright) attribute.
• -bold — enables usage of the bold (double bright) attribute.
• -reverse — enables usage of the reverse attribute.
• -normal — enables usage of the normal attribute.
• -boldfont — enables usage of the boldfont attribute.
• -no<attr> — disables an attribute (i.e. -nobold). the lil "actually, no" version of any attribute flag 💀
• -extended — uses all 256 characters.
• -eight — uses eight bit ASCII.
• -font <font> — selects the font. this option gets used on hardware where aalib is unable to determine the current font. available fonts: vga8, vga9, mda14, vga14, X8x13, X8x16, X8x13bold, vgagl8, line.
• -inverse — enables inverse rendering.
• -noinverse — disables inverse rendering.
• -bright <val> — sets brightness (0-255).
• -contrast <val> — sets contrast (0-255).
• -gamma <val> — sets the gamma correction value (0-1).
• -nodither — disables dithering.
• -floyd_steinberg — Floyd-Steinberg dithering.
• -error_distribution — error distribution dithering.
• -random <val> — sets the random dithering value (0-inf).
• -dimmul <val> — multiply factor for the dim attribute (5.3).
• -boldmul <val> — multiply factor for the bold attribute (2.7).

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💀 BUGS 💀

if you find any bugs, please report them to Jan Hubicka <hubicka@freesoft.cz>. don't be shy, they wanna know 🐛

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👑 LICENCE 👑

bb is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL). iconic behaviour, honestly ✨

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

aafire(1), aainfo(1), aasavefont(1), aatest(1), aview(1), asciiview(1), aaflip(1), aa3d(1), xaos(6), aatv(1).

the whole friend group fr fr 🫶

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Jan Hubicka <hubicka@freesoft.cz>

This manual page was written by Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). we love a humble queen 💖

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and that's the whole page bestie, no notes 💅

this lil masterpiece dropped on December 16, 2001 under the name BB(6) — yeah it's vintage but it's still serving, and that's on periodt 🌸✨