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And it is a really cool hack. I think it is as cool as TEXTMODE QUAKE!!!.

Linky?

Here you go: http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/

complete and playable:
textmode quake

clicky clicky

as long as they port it to text mode I'll be happy.

ttyquake

some screens for the lazy
screen shot

On a side note: OpenGL, I predict, will become less important - new technologies premeire every year at those computer conventions we /ers attend. I have thought of doing simple 3D animations in an SDL/C++ game by rendering frames in POVray, saving them as flat images, then having plain old SDL Blit functions draw the frames onscreen. Just to point out, not EVERY 3D animation absolutely requires run-time ray-tracing. Also, all OpenGL is is a set of functions to simplify drawing the same pixels on the screen you'd be doing by hand, only you don't have to sit there punching co-ordinates into a calculator to figure out what angle and what shading.

In short, it's math. OOOOO, scary, scary math, bugga bugga! If you've seen AA-Lib http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/ you know we can even do 3D in text-mode, for cryin out loud. I, for one, do *not* predict the imminent death of 3D graphics.

Ah, I think you were looking for this, then.

Sorry, sorry! Couldn't resist. What you really wanted was this. Screenshots here and here.

Silly posts get silly answers. :-)

Ah, I think you were looking for this, then.

Sorry, sorry! Couldn't resist. What you really wanted was this. Screenshots here and here.

Silly posts get silly answers. :-)

Ah, I think you were looking for this, then.

Sorry, sorry! Couldn't resist. What you really wanted was this. Screenshots here and here.

Silly posts get silly answers. :-)

I googled it, and indeed someone has created Quake: Text Mode. There's also Unreal Tournament.

You mean to say we won't have to play ASCII TTYQuake anymore?

If you have to ask why, you're not a member of the intended audience.

Already done with Quake 1 - it was an april fools-joke, but it has been done :)
http://games.slashdot.org/games/04/04/01/067237.sh tml
Another interesting Quake 1 Textmode-conversion:
http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/

Yes, but have you seen the *gasp* 3d command line?

Well, here are some starting points in that direction:

3D alphabet
XMLTerm is both a command line "terminal", like an Xterm, and also a web page. XMLterm adds powerful hypertext and graphical capabilities to the Xterm-like terminal interface through its use of XML.
Textmode Quake (ttyquake) uses plain text characters for its 3D rendering.

Been done with aalib. I've personally played Text Mode Quake (screenshots), however not aaquake2 (yet) or the Text Mode UT. The Text Mode UT (aaut) page has some useful information one how aaut and ttyquake work.

Been done with aalib. I've personally played Text Mode Quake (screenshots), however not aaquake2 (yet) or the Text Mode UT. The Text Mode UT (aaut) page has some useful information one how aaut and ttyquake work.

This hoax immediately reminded me of the considerably more real Textmode Quake. Useless geek ingenuity never ceases to amaze me. =)

-A. Coward

Check out TTYQuake. :)

TTYQuake?

A quick glance at the article revealed that it was not ASCII art as I first imagined. When I read the headline, I immediately had a vision of a billboard looking a bit like TextMode Quake. I was most relieved to discover that I was wrong.

Actually, it just uses AA-lib to draw the "pixels", rather than a conventional framebuffer. More info (and screenshots) here.

HTML ahoy: Quake II .NET, QuakeForge, The Transfusion Project, Mac GLQuake, Tenebrae and the related industri. While you could argue about what meets your personal definition of "great", these look pretty good to me. Especially text mode Quake.

Is TTyQuake considered an improvement?

Somebody should take a screenshot of X11 ASCII running TTYQuake in a window. :P

you mean like this ?
ok it's quake 1 but I doubt you're gonna see the difference :]

TTYQuake
TTY UT
and the TTY UT movies
Movies!
Which work in Cygwin, very cool watch.

Plus the method used by TTY UT will work for ANY SDL-based Linux app, so matrix in ASCII
xterm -fn micro -geometry 240x150 -e aaxine -driver slang -width 240 \
-height 150 dvd://01.1 dvd://02.0 dvd://02.1 dvd://02.2 dvd://02.3 \
dvd://02.4 dvd://02.5 dvd://02.6 dvd://03.0 dvd://03.1 dvd://03.2
(so the pages says, never tried, must fix my linux install at some point :)

Console games? You mean like this and this ? :-D

However, nobody would be 'better served' by using text only in a game like Quake

I don't know about that. Sombody thought it was a good idea.

It's called ttyquake or Textmode-Quake, depending on who you ask. Anyway, it's located here, and is sick, sick, sick. Quite cool.

text version of quake

all you had to do was ask..

What next, a text version of Quake?

Oh ... wait.

Oh, and, since Nethackers don't care much about fancy graphics cards, they might not be able to run Quake 3.

Well, there's a savior for that too (screenshots)! All hail to Quake programmers with too much free time!

Oh, and, since Nethackers don't care much about fancy graphics cards, they might not be able to run Quake 3.

Well, there's a savior for that too (screenshots)! All hail to Quake programmers with too much free time!

ASCII Quake!!!

I would have liked to include first person shooters (for the gameplay), but I'm limited by parental concerns, and perceptions in the community.

Simple just use Textmode Quake! I'm not sure if it's multiplayer but I don't think the parents will complain about it being too graphic!! (sadly enough that pun was intended)

http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/

"I wouldn't want to play Return to Castle Wolfenstein in text mode."

You mean you don't play TTYquake???

if someone installed Quake on it. This will make the queue longer than ever...

Hey mam what you are typing all I need is to get some change...

"If you have to ask why, you're not a member of the intended audience. Please go on about your business and accept my apologies for this distraction."
---Bob Zinbinski, author of TTYQuake

After all, there is a textmode quake, always one of my favorites.

It has been done, and it was not an April Fool joke.

It has been done, and it was not an April Fool joke.

You can hardly have a text based FPS though can you?

Check out ttyquake for all your text based FPS needs =)

Why not? You can watch TV in text mode, you can play DVDs in text mode,
you can play Quake 1 in text mode. Quake II is the logical next step.

Or, as the author of ttyquake put it, "If you have to ask why, you're not a member of the intended audience."

Why not? You can watch TV in text mode, you can play DVDs in text mode,
you can play Quake 1 in text mode. Quake II is the logical next step.

Or, as the author of ttyquake put it, "If you have to ask why, you're not a member of the intended audience."

The link above seems to be slashdotted, try this one.

So we can expect a sequel to ttyquake?

Text Mode Quake is where it is at!

I would love to see Quake running on a 4.4GHz computer.

Kinda reminds me of that ASCII filter I heard about a while back.

You can find it here. I've tried it and it worked pretty well, but even on a dual PIII-500 it crawled on any resolution I tried to set it to that gave me enough detail to play. I'm not sure why. It probably has something to do with the fact that it doesn't write directly to the hardware, but it uses a terminal device.

I tried it first, to see how it looked (not like real ASCII art, since it converts colors to characters using aalib), and second, because I thought it would be extremely cool to play Quake through a telnet session...