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Textmode Quake 2
Artemis writes: "Following the Quake 2 source code release under the GPL, here's the follow-up of the famous ttyquake, it's a text mode Quake II called aaquake2 which has just been released. Time for more 3d text mode gaming fun! The site includes screenshots for those of you who haven't seen Quake-turned-Text before."
Someone evidently feels the need to be right at the top of every list of downloads
aaquake indeed
This is such bullshit, I've seen this kind of hoax before. All they do is have a bunch of guys sitting at their computer and as each move request come in, they just type out the screen on their keyboard and send it back to your viewer. When they get tired, it's called "lag."
Wake up slashdot and check out your stories before you post them!
this is great, but we all know what the true ascii enthusiast needs: a text-mode version of x-windows
GoatPigSheep, the 3 most important food groups
Now I can really test the pixel output of my brand-new geForceRS232vt220turbo!!!
Imagine a beowulf clus... ah nevermind.
I'm done with sigs. Sigs are lame.
Well, with sufficiently small characters, it should look fine. In fact, as you approach a 1-pixel font it should look quite nice. Add color and you're there. Oh, wait...
I remember playing ttyquake for the first time.. played for an hour and couldn't make it past the first level.. got lost so many times.. after playing for the hour I felt sick to my stomach for days but the pain was worth it..
;-)
LIVE ON TEXTMODE QUAKE!! LIVE ON!!!!!!
This is fast becomming one of my favourite things to rant about.. textmode gaming!!
The future is here.
from the we-will-be-getting-duplicate-submissions-of-this-
and given your recent track record i guess you'll post it a couple more times as well   ;-)
if i'm a grammar nazi, you're an illiteracy nazi.
...just appeared in the universe. When ttyquake was released, God cried at the absolute wrongness of it. But after this, he has torn the universe asunder. The only way to clense his creation of the horrible mistake is to purge all life from the Galaxy. Yea, even as it happened in the day of Moses, a great flood is being brought down upon us.
In related news, astrophysicists everywhere stood in amazement as the expanding universe slowed, stopped, and began to collapse back on itself.
Also of note, astronomers in the Northern Hemisphere were baffled by the apperance of a new constilation. The collection of never-before-seen stars actually spelled out a phrase. "1 0wn3d j00" could clearly be read in Hebrew.
I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.
You are in a dark room.
An imp has shot you.
darkness decends, you are dead.
There was a page of text characters that represented a dark room for most of the above transaction. I'll attibute the blazing display of that page on the awsome power of the token ring network adaptor used.
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
Dude, get a felt tip pen and draw one on your monitor.
Fuck the system? Nah, you might catch something.
And my wife won't know what I'm looking at.
Oops
this isn't how they ported Quake over to the GameBoy Advanced?
Excuse me while a go write a program that will help Windows render my wallpaper as a text box of ASCII characters...
You don't need to - recent versions of windows already has a program (called kernel32) that randomly renders your wallpaper as a blue screen with indecipherable text upon it. It's not usually enabled with a straight out of the box install of windows though. Best way to get the blue text renderer going is to actually try and do some serious work with your windows computer. Ensuring that you do not save your work for at least an hour will often cause the renderer to appear as well.
Hope this helps.
You are in a twisty maze of processor lines, all alike.
There is a lot of hype here.
There is just something wrong and inhuman about my ability to perceive in a way that is similiar to all other humans. Here is a short list of things I cannot read:
1. Music
2. Prenatal sonograms
3. tty Quake and Quake2
Now, I've been able to see those "optical illusions" in the Sunday funnies. I can even read hiragana, katakana and a few Kanji characters as well. But those three things and probable a few others I can't think of right now escape me entirely!
I can't "see" the sound it's [music] supposed to make. I can't "see" the baby and I certainly can't tell if it has a penis or not. I can't tell where I'm going on those screens!!!
Am I alone in this?!
Now just send the text output to your printer, staple the pages together and make a nice animated quake flip book. If you flip the pages fast enough you should get a faster frame rate than most high end video cards.
http://www.kubuntu.org/
I feel like killing with snake-vision. :D
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