Bad Apple!! Terminal Player 🍎

Flicker-free, audio-synced Bad Apple!! player for your terminal.

Features

• 3 Rendering Modes:
  • ascii (Default): Classic nostalgic ASCII shading ( .:-=+*#%@).
  • braille: Ultra high-resolution rendering using Unicode Braille (2x4 matrix) characters.
  • halfblock: 2x vertical resolution using half-block characters (▀, ▄) for crystal-clear silhouettes.
• Zero-Setup & Featherlight Footprint: Installs in seconds without bloated dependencies! Automatically provisions media assets with MD5 checksum verification.
• Zero-CPU Binary Cache Engine (BAPB v1): Plays from a pre-rendered, zlib-compressed 1-bit binary cache (bad_apple.bin, ~7.7 MB) for <0.5% CPU consumption and instantaneous (0.04 ms) seeking!
• Cross-Platform Audio Engine: Backed by pygame.mixer for distortion-free pause/resume and zero-latency seeking, with fallback to native OS drivers on Windows (winmm.dll MCI), macOS (afplay), and Linux (ffplay/mpv/aplay).
• Flicker-Free & Ghost-Free Rendering: Employs Alternate Screen Buffer (\033[?1049h), scrollback buffer purging, and dynamic resizing for a pristine, clean display at 30 FPS.
• Dynamic Sizing & Visual Scrubber: Automatically senses terminal dimensions, preserves the 4:3 aspect ratio, centers output, and displays an interactive progress bar.

Controls

Installation & Quick Start

Option 1: Install via pip (Recommended)

pip install bad-apple-in-terminal

Run it directly from anywhere in your terminal:

bad-apple
# or
badapple

Option 2: Run from Source (Zero-Setup)

Just clone and run! Required dependencies and media files are automatically prepared on first launch:

git clone https://github.com/Ohualtex/bad-apple.git
cd bad-apple
python main.py

Options & Flags

# Start with a specific render mode (ascii, braille, halfblock)
bad-apple --mode ascii

# Pre-render compact binary cache for zero-CPU playback and instantaneous seek
bad-apple --build-cache

# Force real-time OpenCV decoding instead of binary cache
bad-apple --no-cache

# Disable audio
bad-apple --no-audio

# Set specific terminal width/height
bad-apple --width 100 --height 35

macOS Tips

• Gapless Half-Block Display:
  The default macOS Terminal.app adds vertical font leading (line spacing) between lines. To achieve a seamless, OLED-smooth display:
  1. Open Terminal → Settings (Cmd + ,) → Profiles → Text.
  2. Click Change... under Font.
  3. Expand the font window downward if needed, and set the Line Spacing slider to 0.80.
  4. Alternatively, press M to switch to Braille mode (which is naturally immune to line spacing), or use modern terminals like iTerm2, Ghostty, or Kitty.