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Textmode Quake
ScUmM_BoY writes "Someone had enough spare time to create Textmode Quake for Linux. It was the Link of the Day over at User Friedly, and the Web page includes some (blinding) screenshots. Keen!" I really don't know what to say. I am aghast. Update: 02/12 22:19 by michael : Okay, okay. So it was posted to Slashdot a year and half ago. It's still cool.
like the other poster said, 80x25 asshole.
What does Win2k have to do with Textmode Quake?
...not to mention a paranoid delusionist. When he's not insulting John Carmack for no reason, he's posting complete garbage about government conspiracies, or crap like the Linus Torvalds radio thing or this. Rob please take away his posting access, I'm tired of his moronic crap.
-W.W.
Actually I think these are the funniest things on slashdot. At least you caught it before the grits guy.
Why do you like the text verson of Quake III? Isn't it supposed to be less visibility then the graphic mode of Quake 3? Suppose you nerds really like wierd stuff. And I bet it's for Linux only... Yeah.. I'd go rather play Quake 3 and rail you guys left and right with you guys in poor visibility text mode. Besides, I think it's weird to have text modes of realistic 3D games. huh..
I don't think there is a textmode gimp. The GIMP supports aalib as a filter or something like that. I believe you can take your picture files and turn them into ascii art within GIMP, and GIMP uses aalib to do it.
Does anyone else remember the old Amiga ASCII megademo? It was done as a joke but was really cool. Had texture-mapped mandelbrot cubes, long hand-drawn full screen ASCII anims and the like. Hilarious.
There's a guy in Finland that has duplicated the Unix kernel and released the source code!
The text mode game looks ugly. I have played the X SVGAlib version in X, and I wouldn't go back to a text interface. Maybe this is of use to people that never upgrade their machine, or feel they want to be atavistic.
I know we all wish there were more geek chicks, but I'm not so sure this is the way to get them converted.
You arnt to bright. Thats not the real jonkatz
That joker has the screenshots made in Fronpage 2.0, with about 99% overhead.
Ok, "back in the day" and _always_ these have always been "becoming a large problem". This _ALWAYS_ happens. This is just how slashdot is. It's not getting worse or better, it doesn't matter. EVERY TIME they do it, it's predicatable that everyone and their mother complain and predict the corruption of slashdot into some blithering mound of repeated stories. People always have nostalgia for stuff they can't even remember accurately or stuff that they weren't even there for. Also: they have always had poor spelling and grammar. They're not getting better or worse on that either, deal with it. It's slashdot, it's not going to change.
No shit. I read it the first time and it sure as hell isn't News for Nerds now. And what happended with moderation? Why aren't people who post about fucking a stone statue of Natalie Portman (sic re name spelling?, I don't know anything about her except she was in the Star Wars sequel and too young too interest an old bastard like me) moderated out of existence; I'm too old and too fond of real women to want to read this shit. Slashdot is looking like a lot of the worst groups on Usenet these days. Wasn't moderation supposed to cut out the irrelevant bullshit? Is the general readership of the group to stupid to weed out this shit?
Sorry for the rant; I know I haven't bothered to log in as anything other than AC or contribute anything deep or insightful. But I'm amazed that /. pretends to have any moderators at all; half the posts on any article are irrelevant trolls. Why the fuck should I have to care about almost-jail-bait Natalie Portman to read "News for Nerds?"
Anon wrote
Paul Wilkins, who apparently has waaaay to much free time, has graciously donated two HTML "screenshots" of ttyquake which he created by hand. No, really. He typed in all those little characters while reading from jpeg screenshots I sent him. His mother must be so proud.
Hrm... I wonder if this guy has ever heard of "OCR" software?
Paul responds OCR would have been an easier way to do it but the letters wouldn't have come out right because the jpgs were fuzzy as hell. At the time of doing them I was looking for something to concentrate on over a weekend, and this provided me with just right sort of thing. It was something that I am interested in, and it was a good chance for me to improve a small part of the internet. Why put up a program for Ascii-Quake and then have jpg screen-shots of it? It didn't make sense.
It also gave me experience with FrontPage, and with that experience a good reason to move from GUI HTML editors onto ones like Arachnophillia.
Still, I'd really like to find out how I can rewrite those screens so you can go from white to grey and back to white without having to use the font tags. With them in there the text version is larger than the jpg!!
Paul Wilkinsand you are going to get sued under the Americans with Disabilities Act because i am too poor to afford some big ass X11 computer, i have 80x25 on my MDA monitor i bought in 1985 with the settlement from Dow Chemical after love canal
the archives of /. contain great prose i think it will be good
Lame Test: Shit, Fuck, Today, Yesterday, Tommorow. Lame test.
The problem is /. is posting stuff that has been around for a LONG time. Why aren't they posting NEWS?
http://slashdot.org/articles/98 /09/04/1524236.shtml This was posted by Hemos many moons ago.
you will be punished.
get a life
Heh, this is actualy pretty funny. Much better then most of the slashdot 'jammers' we've got running around nowadays..
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OK.r imental
I would like to tell you all, that at home I have new AA-lib (1.4) and aa-vga.
It has working keyboard for Linux console (well only keys with ascii equivalents and arrows works, but at least
releases are detected). Also I've fixed aa-vga so it now have much better
results and is able to run more games (doom, koules, abuse tested).
Acutally I am quite busy to release it right now.
Fot those who are interested, I've put it to
http://horac.ta.jcu.cz/pub/linux/hubicka/expe
enjoy!
Honza Hubicka
twi
This is text mode quake we are talking about... that was a screenshot of the naked Jackie Chan Skin.
wouldn't it be awesome too with this merged by a QuakeForge developer? Next what about SDL?
HEy, we need a site for stuff like this. It's and entire genre of humor.
200 stories submitted and michael, robs special 'butt buddy' is the one that gets a story out. now i hope this little flame will either a. create a sense of tense and quietude masking an inner seething rage between the old guard slashdot admins and 'michael' so they will say, inevitably, with deep gravely voices full of managerial concern and angst, "im afraid its not working out. im afraid we'll have to let you go" and retreat slowly to the coffee room where hemos and taco can banter and look each other in the eye and make a silent subconscious pact and agreement that what they did was right, was necessary, was awful, and most importantly, made them 'real men' by foisting upon them a tough decision that only 'real men' who are leaders can make. b. make everyone at /. rally around michael, tell him its ok, they still love him, it wasnt his fault, etc. c. both d. make them hire a WOMAN instead of bitching 'why arent there geek girls' (of course she would get flamed by 500 slobbering fucktards instantly but .. )
Are you ever going to have a post with a score over 1? It seems the moderators think as much of your posts as the /. community thinks of your articles.
Then mankind will no longer need to remember what has already been posted.
Oh, brave new world.
MS innovates the Wheel..
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As a Cube.
You mean like if we port Powerpoint?
heeeeeheeeeee
for the most words written continuously, stream-of-consciousness style, without any end in sight and saying the most ridiculous things which eventually seem funnier as you continue to get caught in the ever widening cycle of self-perpetuated verbage that can never seem to end although you can never exactly seem to explain why it doesnt seem unnatural.
So instead of correcting the problem and pushing back the release date, Microsoft is going to release Windows 2000 upon thousands of unsuspecting retailers, and millions of unsuspecting users JUST to meet the deadline. "That's okay, we'll fix it in service pack 1."
The only problem with that is, Service pack 1 is a good 6 months away. In the meantime, what do the users do?
"Our goal for the next release of Windows 2000 is to have zero bugs."
WHO do these people think they're KIDDING? The next release? Okay, we're at Service pack 6 for NT 4. Several of those service packs actually BROKE more stuff than they fixed, and the goal for Windows 2000 OSR2 is zero bugs? Sure, I'll hand it to them - They have the right idea, but:
A) it's more than likely just marketspeak: "This one may have 63,000 problems, but the NEXT one will have zero, enabling you to have fun, and be more productive than ever! Blah Blah..."
B) How about attainable goals? How many people believe in their hearts that Microsoft will put out a Bug-free operating system? There is no such thing. Also, Microsoft is so concerned about market share that they could care less about present problems. "Fix it later."
Market researchers have repeated warnings to their clients against upgrading immediately to Win2000.
Go back about 5 years, replace "Win2000" with "Windows 95", and we have the SAME EXACT situation all over again. (Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.)
Several outfits have advised customers to wait until Microsoft issues its first or second service pack before deploying Win2000.
*Ahem* - Replace "Win2000" with NT 4.0. Wash, Rinse, Repeat.
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We're developing a research C compiler here and we use lots of programs for benchmarking and regression testing. Doom is one. One of the guys here hacked up a text mode Doom so it could more easily integrate with our regression testing environment (it's much easier to diff textual output :)).
So no, actually this isn't always a waste of time. At least not if your building your own computer or something. :)
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All the moderators can do is simply use one of their points to bring it down a point. The trouble is, every point you use to bring DOWN a comment is one less you can use to bring up a very insightful comment. I have taken the stance to only use my moderator points to make POSITIVE adjustments to scores as much as I can. This is in order to make sure the good comments get up to 2 or 3 and are seen by people reading at a higher level to avoid the idiotic trolls at -1, 0, and 1. So, basically the reason you see these trolls is they post TONS of this garbage. What is a moderator to do? Waste all 5 of his points on moderating 5 troll messages down or use them to moderate 5 good posts up leaving the trolls at AC default of 0? The trolls do it because they KNOW this is how the system works. They can post the same message over and over 100-200 times and we can either: a) ignore it, b) have all the moderators spend all their points to moderate them to -1. Personally I'd like to just see a "kill troll" button as a moderator that would immediately drop the post down to a -1 and would cause slashdot to ignore any attempts to post from that same IP for 30 minutes. It has a very big chance of being abused but it would be SO much better to just go down the page and hit a kill troll button and wipe out that message and the entire thread beneath it without wasting points that can be used on valuable posts. Meta-moderation would hopefully take care of abuses.
Yes, I know. I just need to show my love for aalib and Koules.
No, surely it wouldn't be possible to do something similar to converting graphics to ANSI text on-the-fly. Surely it wouldn't be possible to do exactly the same thing the aalib is doing -- the same library in fact that text-mode Quake is based on! It even says on the page itself -- BASED ON AALIB!! NO, OF COURSE IT WOULDN'T BE POSSIBLE! IT WOULDN'T BE POSSIBLE TO CREATE A LIBRARY LIKE THE ONE BY JAN HUBICKA AVAILABLE AT http://www.ta.jcu.cz/aa/aalib/, THE LIBRARY MADE BY THE SAME MAN WHO MADE A CERTAIN GAME CALLED -- KOULES!! RING A BELL!*!L?!? OF COURSE IT WOULDN'T BE POSSIBLE TO CREATE A LIBRARY THAT "works on a terminal of any kind, [is] fast and portable, [and] gives to you standard API." OR ONE THAT "gives to your old hardware more power!" ONE THAT USES ANSI COLOURS TO PROPERLY SHADE THE GRAPHICS WHEN EQUIPPED WITH A CAPABLE TERMINAL?!
Har har I'm just kiddin' ya; a library like that actually already exists.
http://hackme.dhs.org/AAshot.html
I have to return some videotapes...
here
Here is a ASCII version of the guy you all know and love
And the photo i made it out of
The gimp plug-in is called AA. It can be found on gimp.org. And no those links are not in 80x25 :P
I have to return some videotapes...
Please before submitting any stories search the slashdot database. I found an article that I remembered reading : http://slashdot.org/articles/98/09/04/1524236.shtm l
So please search the database for any previous mentions of the same stuff.
Please before submitting any stories search the slashdot database. I found an article that I remembered reading : So please search the database for any previous mentions of the same stuff.
Please before submitting any stories search the slashdot database. I found an article named Quake for ttys -- Really! that I remembered reading. So please search the database for any previous mentions of the same stuff.
On the AA Project home page, there's a section on 'Software known to support AA'; and there, second on the list, is The GIMP. textmode GIMP! Waaahhh, that is so perverse. I greatly fear I shall have to play with this...
I hate to burst your bubble, but the gimp supports aalib because it can render (save) images to ASCII art format, not because the program itself executes in text mode.
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Jeezus....from the screenshots, it looks like looking into "The Matrix"...minus the tacky green terminal and how text went down instead of across. :)
Mike
If it's happening more often, the most likely reason is with a much larger volume of back-stories in /.'s history now than there was two years ago, it's that much easier to repeat a story. When you've only publishes a couple of hundred, it's easy to remember what's gone before: when you've reached several thousand, it's a little tougher.
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Isnt there a Xserver for svgalib?
If not, you could always use a combo of vncserver and the svgalib vnc client, then youre set. If youre (un)lucky you might get your X desktop in asci without writing a single line of code.
uh oh.. just read back over what i'd posted and noticed a horrendous typo. too late.
"patch all the quicktime traps".. that should have said "patch all the quickdraw traps".
This doesn't really matter or effect the meaning of the post in the end, but i'm pretty sure if anyone catches the error i'll get flamed like hell.
doesn't matter one way or the other, there's no way in hell i'd ever get around to writing anything that patched the quickdraw stuff anyway.. especially for the simple reason that there's no _use_ for an X client running off the mac os, since you can use VNC.. (which is something i probably should have mentioned in the original post, or at least stressed i wasn't serious..)
shoulda looked more carefully before i posted. i'm an idiot. please forgive me, i am tired..
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Looks kind of like the scene where Neo realizes that he's the One and then stops the bullets and everything is rendered in 3d with characters running across it.
It's bitchy to get wokring, you need svgalib and libncurses3, 3, not 4, not 5, libncurses3, there's a package in debian for this, and there are rpms floating around.
I've only gotten it working in black & white, very trippy, impresses people for an instant, then they're like, umm, that's stupid! You can't move or shoot or see well.
We need more stupid, pointless, cool, hacks like this for linux
--dave whizziwig.com
example 1:
JonKatz
example 2:
JohnKatz
See the diffrence?
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1) there is no source.
Good god, does everything have to come with source nowadays (And, I'd have to say I'd be surprised if it actually didn't, what's the value in an proprietary ASCII based X server?)
Even if there were no source, it doesn't really matter. If you really need an open source ASCII X server, why don't you write one yourself? This was simply done for fun, bitching about not providing the source for something no one needed is really lame.
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Well, I don't know much about CSS, but you might be able to use the tag (and yes you can do it without including a href=whatever) and then defineing a CSS spec for the tag that says "color = white" or somthing like that (I don't know for sure, I've never messed with them myself.
:P
Check out the w3c.org site for more information on CSS (cascading style sheets). It would save a lot of space in the file
I can't stand HTML editors, I guess its beacuse I grew up on Plaintext... I tried using frontpage once for making an extremely simple page, and I got so frustraited that I ended up redoing the whole thing in text (You can see the results Here. I ended up using like 3 levels of nested tables
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I went to the story before, the last time it was posted, but this time there was somthing new:
Paul Wilkins, who apparently has waaaay to much free time, has graciously donated two HTML "screenshots" of ttyquake which he created by hand. No, really. He typed in all those little characters while reading from jpeg screenshots I sent him. His mother must be so proud.
Hrm... I wonder if this guy has ever heard of "OCR" software?
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squake segfaults on me!!! I'm running a 2.2.x kernel on debian 2.2. anyone else plagued by this? I want texty quake, dammit!
The site claims that some guy typed in the text-only screen shots BY HAND! It's worth the view. God, I hope that those pictures weren't really typed by hand. Programming in binary would be more fun.
I almost believe that this is becoming a large problem (as not just this particular case, as some have already pointed out.)
:)
It seems to be happening more and more often, that the Slashdot news posters either post the same thing multiple times, or post something that is very old.
Not to mention the horrible grammar and typos. I know that these guys are really l33t hackers, and as such, minor details like spelling and coherency really don't apply.
But honestly. It makes Slashdot seem less professional.
Oh well; just another day at slashdot
Pete
The sick thing is, aalib will work with an astonishing array of "real" apps. There's even a GIMP plugin, I hear, if you're just dying to make screenshots even a Lynxer can read.
Yahoo! Pipes are awesome. How awesome? http://pipes.yahoo.com/jesdynf/slashdot
This reminds me of the wacky dripping characters from The Matrix. Maybe the folks who designed that had played an earlier version of this... This has to be positively mind numbing when animated.
perl -e 'srand(-2091643526); print chr rand 90 for (0..4)'
True, there was no moderation, and no need for moderation, but when I went back to the archived copy of the article, I found that every comment was basically "Whoah, that is cool, ". Wouldn't you agree that while the level of petrifying natalie portmanizing trolls has gone up, the intelligent posts have kept the balance pretty much even?
Wah!
Hahahah!
;-)
Don't give anybody any ideas, I think the old Infocome parser source is floating about out there somewhere.
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
You give the creators too much credit. Read the damn page. This textmode quake is nothing but the synthesis of two libraries, aalib and aavga, a wrapper for aalib that turns VGA commands to svgalib into commands for aalib, the character library. You can get the source for both from that page. The thing is nothing but a script file redirecting quake to use those libraries...
sheesh
Esperandi
I think to truly embody the attitude and beliefs of the Open Source movement, this guys disclaimer really ought to be imported into the GPL as the default disclaimer. In case you didn't read, here it is:
WHAT IF IT DOESN'T WORK FOR ME?
Well, don't come crying to me. Do you think I care if a useless, buggy hack for an unsupported port of a game on a free operating system doesn't work for you? Hah! Think again. Err, but if you, heh, fix anything I'd sure love to hear about it.
Esperandi
You give the creators too much credit. Read the damn page. This textmode quake is nothing but the synthesis of two libraries, aalib and aavga, a wrapper for aalib that turns VGA commands to svgalib into commands for aalib, the character library. You can get the source for both from that page. The thing is nothing but a script file redirecting quake to use those libraries...
sheesh
Esperandi
sorry, replied to the wrong post ;)
Esperandi
My previous reply should have been posted somewhere else, please completely ignore it.
Sorry, replied to wrong post ;)
Esperandi
Now, lets get a tourny going where everyone is playing this on 75 baud TTYs. You can eat lunch between screen redraws Please remember to bring your ear plugs (Chugga, Chugga, Chugga)
this is like the textmode Doom! and for Linux! oh joy! this shows that all those 1337 h4x0r d00dz are doing something constructive with their time (or something...). Now to get textmode Q3...
From my own experience, VNC on the Mac is much more buggy than VNC on other platforms. The Linux (Unix) server is almost perfect (just one minor modification makes it run GNOME or KDE); the Windows server works fine for most things (if you don't have it poll the whole screen (which is slow) (and sometimes even if you do) some text elements in some windows won't get updated right, but it is still quite useful), and the Mac server looked like a bad hack. Maybe that is just my experience, but it crashing on every connect just doesn't seem like reliability to me. AT&T probably has a new version (the direct link is VNC - Virtual Network Computing from AT&T Laboratories Cambridge, courtesy of Google; check out their logo for today!).
VNC is really cool. It does not limit you to the X protocol, although the way the Unix server works is basically acting like an X server to X clients and a VNC server to VNC clients. This means it can work on OSes that have a closed window-update system, like Windows and Mac OS. It just polls windows for changes, if necessary, or updates windows when they receive a message, or whatever technique it wants (the two mentioned apply to the Windows server).Its advantages over an X server are that (1) the desktop is client-independant; you don't have to be running an OS on the client for which an X server has been written (there is a Java client!), and (2) for the Unix servers, if the client crashes or disconnects for any reason, the desktop stays as it was. An X server would dump all applications and you would lose your data, and (3) its compression rocks (better in many cases than GIF, and for a dynamic image!).
Yes, with a fast enough (and low-latency) link, you can play remote Quake. But why bother? Get your own!
Kenneth
I think that it is one of the greatest human technological achievements, right up there with the shoehorn, highlighting tape, rubber toucans, and twisty ties... I just can't wait till there is a text-based linux port of Ultima Underworld!
Subject says it all.
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Asciimac is quite cool, although a bit unstable (as most hacks written in a few hours are).
:)
I was watching TV in ascii the first time i tried Asciimac. It's actually quite viewable
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I guess the guys at slashdot don't like this one anymore. Perhaps it should say that if you submit it again after waiting a while, one of the guys from the there-are-too-many-author's dept. will post it.Okay, here's the point:
You know, I've been reading slashdot for quite a while now (about 2 years). This sorta thing never used to happen at all, what is it these days? I guess I can understand one or two occasional slip-ups, but it's definately beginning to be noticable.
Wigs
Relevant quote/saying/neat sig: As I said before, I never repeat myself!
no really i tried this extension a while ago, it makes the system a bit slow but still works, and when u turn the ASCII effect on... wow so weird, i never seen ANYTHING like that before!!!
This is really cool, dont know why, but it just seems really cool!
;)
Incidentally, This is the preferred rendering option for S3 & ATI cards
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You are in a maze of twisty, browish-grey passages, all alike.
There is a ravenous fiend here.
>kill fiend
What do you want to kill the fiend with?
>nail gun
You do not have that weapon.
The fiend leaps on you! You are torn apart by its sharp claws.
**** You have died ****
share and enjoy
D00D, THANKS, JAN HUBICKA FOR AALIB + KOOOLS, ARE U REAL GO1NG TO PORT AALIB 2 THE VIC-2o + DO U TH1NK I CAN PLAY QUAKE ON IT NOW??1?!?1?!
LETZ HERE 1T FOR THE C00L AWESUM ASCII GRAPH1CZ SKILZ WHEN CAN I GET AN ANS1 VURSION?!?1??
CAN WE MAKE D00M A KRACKED D00R GAME?1??
I LEFT MY CELL FONE IN PRISON! KAN U HELP???
I really do believe this is the reason i switched to linux, so i could run cool shit like this. call me crazy, but this stuff drives me wild. i remember, about two years ago formatting and partitioning my hard drive just to do this. cool code and people like this should and i hope always will exist.
Moderate me down if you will but why does this drivel get moderated up? Not, everything needs the source, and this site shouldn't reward those who bitch about not having it. the source is great, but this is just of the coolest geeky ideas ever, so don't complain.
But its still cool i guess. It uses AAlib that i guess makes it easy to just replace SVGAlib with. So you could have textmode-anything_that_uses_SVGAlib. There is also a cool demo on the AA lib page called "BB". Its worth a download.
there is source to aalib, and source to aavga. Both are mentioned on the ttyquake page though not available directly in teh ttyquake package. I think you're giving aavga too much credit...it is just an aalib wrapper to implement svgalib functionality, it certainly does not handle even a tiny subset of X, it's totally separate. If someone did write an X server that used aalib, that would be hella cool, though. :)
As someone who has worn out more modems than I care to admit over the last 15 years, I personally would admit getting a kick out of an ANSI BBS door port of Quake. On principle.
The point being, while I love 3d grafx, and GUIs and all, and I'm no Luddite, I loved the increased stimulation of one's mind and sense of community that the "golden years" of text/ANSI based modeming carried. Sigh. Sorry. I apologize. Nostalgia mode OFF.
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there is, for the mac, an extention called Asciimac. Basically what it does is take the mac os's display and render it in ASCII art in real time on the screen. It is somewhere between incredibly scary and amazing. It won a MacHack award a couple years ago and is somewhat open source.
:)
I wonder if it would be possible to rewrite it so that it sent text over an ANSI telnet connection instead of to the screen? hmm.
i was actually wondering just now if it would be possible to hijack the mac's video drivers or patch all the quicktime traps or something in order to create an X client for the mac os.. but it would have never occured to me to do it with terminal emulation instead if i hadn't seen this..
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Quake on an old LA120. Just in case you hate trees.
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1) there is no source.
2) it doesn't work with quakeforge.
3) and did i mention it: there is no source.
Oh man baby... back when I was running my BBS, I told people this day was in the not so distant future... no one beleived me.. they called me mad, insane, crazy... ha! Ha ha! My genius is proved! All those hours of creating intricate BBS artwork with the ASCII character set vindicated! My day of glory has arrived! The future has arrived... we've come full circle... the cycle is copmlete... Muwah... muwah... muwahHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa......
the only thing that could possibly be more wrong than this is the advert flashing at the top of my /. window when I read it, for a linux asp server....
On the AA Project home page, there's a section on 'Software known to support AA'; and there, second on the list, is The GIMP. textmode GIMP! Waaahhh, that is so perverse. I greatly fear I shall have to play with this...
I'm old enough to remember when discussions on Slashdot were well informed.