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    Rendering Half-life 2 game in ASCII for a 486DX-2 ?

    Hi,

    Some Geeks here using C or python and ascii curs'ing libraries?

    What about designing a very light-weight method to really render HL2, and play it on an old computer.

    Rendering a video to be played on the DX is possible, finder in the nose But to play it ... That's another problem.

    There are two possibilities. Either you cannot make it since rendering it would be tricky if you gotta have to play it. Or, you could use a super-fast computer that would in-line transcribe the key and mouse gesture, and re-send it to the DX.

    btw check out libtcod. It is worth the try !

    Any other solutions?



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    Re: Rendering Half-life 2 game in ASCII for a 486DX-2 ?

    I laughed hard. Thank you.
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    Re: Rendering Half-life 2 game in ASCII for a 486DX-2 ?

    Quote Originally Posted by Bachstelze View Post
    I laughed hard. Thank you.
    It is indeed good to laugh a lot.

    I like those crazy thoughts, I must say.

    Well, seriously, why cannot we use an old 486DX to game? There must be some solutions else than nInvaders.

    Why not multiplayer gaming over Net and curse?

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    Re: Rendering Half-life 2 game in ASCII for a 486DX-2 ?

    And for a completely unrelated news, someone ported Portal to a graphing calculator.

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    Re: Rendering Half-life 2 game in ASCII for a 486DX-2 ?

    Quote Originally Posted by zombifier25 View Post
    And for a completely unrelated news, someone ported Portal to a graphing calculator.
    that's nice link. you have more? maybe HL2 is on Ti.

    have you seen Halo ported to Atari 7800?


    btw,
    Your avatar is really very scary. Could you change it please?
    thxs

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    Re: Rendering Half-life 2 game in ASCII for a 486DX-2 ?

    Quote Originally Posted by honeybear View Post
    btw,
    Your avatar is really very scary. Could you change it please?
    thxs
    A long time ago I asked some moderators on IRC if I could use that avatar, and they allowed me.
    Also, I'm using your post as my signature (for a while)

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    Re: Rendering Half-life 2 game in ASCII for a 486DX-2 ?

    Quote Originally Posted by zombifier25 View Post
    A long time ago I asked some moderators on IRC if I could use that avatar, and they allowed me.
    Also, I'm using your post as my signature (for a while)
    there are children no on the board.

    I am a sensitive person, and I can not even look on the left side ...

    btw, is is possible that I do use chromium to block the url of a given picture?
    it is probably possible, actually, even on my router I might be capable...

    Maybe just ideas but I am not so sure.



    interesting idea.

    You are friendly though but just avatar is scary


    edit: router solution not working
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    Re: Rendering Half-life 2 game in ASCII for a 486DX-2 ?

    Quote Originally Posted by zombifier25 View Post
    A long time ago I asked some moderators on IRC if I could use that avatar, and they allowed me.
    IRC has avatars?
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    Re: Rendering Half-life 2 game in ASCII for a 486DX-2 ?

    Quote Originally Posted by honeybear View Post
    there are children no on the board.

    I am a sensitive person, and I can not even look on the left side ...

    btw, is is possible that I do use chromium to block the url of a given picture?
    it is probably possible, actually, even on my router I might be capable...

    Maybe just ideas but I am not so sure.



    interesting idea.

    You are friendly though but just avatar is scary


    edit: router solution not working
    Use Adblock Plus along with Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus, then click the ABP icon in the addon bar, choose "Select an element to hide", then choose the image you want to block. This is for Firefox of course, for Chrome there's also Adblock Plus but I don't know if it's the same.
    Quote Originally Posted by CptPicard View Post
    IRC has avatars?
    I asked about the image in the forum itself.

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    Re: Rendering Half-life 2 game in ASCII for a 486DX-2 ?

    Quote Originally Posted by zombifier25 View Post
    Use Adblock Plus along with Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus, then click the ABP icon in the addon bar, choose "Select an element to hide", then choose the image you want to block. This is for Firefox of course, for Chrome there's also Adblock Plus but I don't know if it's the same.


    I asked about the image in the forum itself.
    thanks. I think that I am too lazy to do that ... If I had a robot that could do it that would be great and also serve a segafredo

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