CMatrix - show a scrolling 'Matrix' like screen in Linux (curses based)

CMatrix Homepage - be sure to check out the latest version =-) http://www.asty.org/cmatrix

To compile the program, type 'make'.

CMatrix by default operates in 'eye candy' mode. It must be aborted with control-c or 'q'. If you wish for more of a 'screen saver' effect, you must specify -s on the command line. For usage, use cmatrix -h.

To get the program to look most like the movie, use cmatrix -lba To get the program to look most like the Win/Mac screensaver, use cmatrix -ol

You'll probably need a decent ncurses library to get this to work. I have provided a binary that depends on ncurses 4.2 & glibc6.

If you have any suggestions/flames/patches to send, please feel free to do so. Please do not critique my code, I know I'm a hack ;-) I just got the urge to write this one evening, and decided to see how fast I could do it. It's probably not particularly portable or efficient, but I'm pretty sure it wont hog too much CPU time.

Chris Allegretta
chrisa@asty.org

Thanks to:
- Krisjon Hanson and Bjoern Ganslandt for helping with bold support and Bjoern again for the cursor removal code, helping with the -u and -l modes/flags, and Makefile improvements. - Adam Gurno for multi-color support.
- Garrick West for debian consolefont dir support. - nemo for design thoughts and continuous help and support. - John Donahue for helping with transparent term support - Ben Esacove for Redhat 6 compatibility w/matrix.psf.gz - Everyone who has been sending (and who will send) me mail regarding bugs, comments, patches or just a hello. =-) - jwz for the xmatrix module to xscreensaver at http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver. - My girlfriend Amy for not killing me when I stayed up till 3AM writing this =) - The makers of the Matrix for one kickass movie!

This software is provided under the GNU GPL. I am in no way affiliated in any way with the movie 'The Matrix', just a big fan.