UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

From my first impression reading this you are asking for ASCII characters laid out on screen to form pictures on screen which are interactive?

might be way off with that one but its about the only thing that makes sense for "graphics in a terminal"

You will never, ever get a pixel-based game running in a hardware TTY terminal attached to your serial port.

Do you have a machine with a VGA card instead? That'd stand better chances. :P

'pixels in terminal' makes absolutely no sense. The VGA terminals Linux give you, cease to be a terminal when used in raw graphics mode. compiled with what options and what video libraries? If it uses libraries you don't have, it won't work. If it doesn't have any video libraries, it won't work.

Try running the 'raster.linux' program in my SDL_plattest. It's so limited and retro you can barely call it a 'game' but it should test whether SDL works...

Not a hardware TTY terminal, Just in the local amulated terminal(ALT+Fn).
What do you mean by a VGA card? I am using a x86 pc with a intel integrated video card on my mother board.
I installed a game supertux, but it said: Couldn't initialize SDL: No available video device. But it can run in X.
I saw some distros display a pixel based and colored penguin on the top left corner of a terminal. And I think this is related with my question.
Does this mean half termial and half raw graphics mode?(please ignore qemu and outside X)


Whether it can be called a terminal or not, what I want just a game like the picture shows below that can run without X.

A terminal is a terminal... Your screen stops being a terminal the instant you switch into graphics mode. as explained in many of my previous posts, SDL can be configured to use video in many different ways, but you may need to build it yourself to get them. Assuming you even have any other video methods, things I mentioned in other previous posts.

I see. Thank you.