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Textmode Quake

Posted by michael on from the I-laughed-I-cried dept.

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.

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  1. Hmm. by dougman · · Score: 2

    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.

  2. Re:awesome! by Pascal+Q.+Porcupine · · Score: 2
    It kinda exists already. There's a GGI target for Mesa, and there's an AAlib target for GGI; by extension, there's an AAlib target for Quake3. :) It'll be really fscking slow unless you turn off texture filtering, though, and even then Q3 is quite unplayable (not that being in textmode would make it any easier).

    To turn off the filtering, BTW, you have to start up Q3, bring up the console, wait a billion years for the console to become visible, set the texture mode to GL_NEAREST, and wait a billion years again. It'd seem there's no way to keep Q3's texture filtering off by default unless they changed their mind since q3test 1.08 (even if you set the texture mode in the config, it'd revert to the default of bilinear, and there was no way to select anything less than bilinear in any GUI). Kind of annoying, since there ARE some cards out there with sufficient fillrate which don't implement filtering in hardware (the Riva 128 springs to mind), and just because it won't be quite as pretty on those cards doesn't mean they should be unsupported entirely... I mean, come ON, it probably takes more code to *disallow* them (by forcing at least bilinear filtering).

    Oops, heh, sorry about that. But anyway, yes, you can most likely do aalib rendering for Quake3 already, but it'll be [even more of] a pain to deal with.
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  3. Re:Sure by Pascal+Q.+Porcupine · · Score: 2
    That's nothin'. Check out my user info page. :) (And I've had that for a few days now.)

    Oh, and the original picture is hidden in my website (yes, that's the diplomat photo for the porcupine race I added to Civ:CTP during LokiHack).
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  4. Re:riva128 by Pascal+Q.+Porcupine · · Score: 2

    Oh, I was under the impression (based on screenshots etc.) that the Riva128 didn't do bilinear, though the updated version (the 128ZX) did.
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  5. Do you always look at it in code? by Accipiter · · Score: 2
    What? I don't even see the code. All I see is Blonde, Brunette, Redhead...

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  6. Woah...Nostalgia! by Accipiter · · Score: 2
    God, this brings back memories.

    Specifically:

    http://slashdot.org/articles/98 /09/04/1524236.shtml

    I loved it both times! :)

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    1. Re:Woah...Nostalgia! by grappler · · Score: 2

      you're right about the posts, but then, look at the article - it's about a textmode quake, for god's sake.

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    2. Re:Woah...Nostalgia! by grappler · · Score: 2

      No kidding...

      rereading that article, I am drawn back to the days when:

      -There was no moderation
      -There was no need for moderation

      and its kinda interesting that one guy said, "only on a friday could something like this be posted" and now, here it is on a friday when it was reposted!

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    3. Re:Woah...Nostalgia! by Wah · · Score: 2

      the intelligent posts have kept the balance pretty much even?

      go read a katz thread...
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    4. Re:Woah...Nostalgia! by Duxup · · Score: 2

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  7. Re:Marketing? Deadlines? Pah.... by Accipiter · · Score: 2
    ACK! MODERATE DOWN! WRONG ARTICLE!!!

    Sorry. :(

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  8. hmm, ttys.. by mcc · · Score: 2

    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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  9. A really perverse thought... by Soko · · Score: 2

    Quake on an old LA120. Just in case you hate trees.

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  10. misc feelings by FonkiE · · Score: 2

    1) there is no source.
    2) it doesn't work with quakeforge.
    3) and did i mention it: there is no source.

  11. BBS Flashback by nezroy · · Score: 2

    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......

  12. wrong... very wrong... by cabbey · · Score: 3

    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....

  13. You know what's really terrifying? by Simon+Brooke · · Score: 3

    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...

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