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

[honeybear]

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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Geek forever?
Ascii shooter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4dINhiTkNE

[Bachstelze]

I laughed hard. Thank you. :)

[honeybear]

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?

[zombifier25]

And for a completely unrelated news, someone ported Portal to a graphing calculator (http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/12/portals-physics-engine-rebuilt-in-25kb-on-a-graphing-calculator/).

[honeybear]

And for a completely unrelated news, someone ported Portal to a graphing calculator (http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/12/portals-physics-engine-rebuilt-in-25kb-on-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

[zombifier25]

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) :lolflag:

[honeybear]

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) :lolflag:

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

[CptPicard]

A long time ago I asked some moderators on IRC if I could use that avatar, and they allowed me.

IRC has avatars?

[zombifier25]

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 (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/?src=hp-dl-mostpopular) along with Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/elemhidehelper/?src=ss), 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.

IRC has avatars?

I asked about the image in the forum itself.

[honeybear]

Use Adblock Plus (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/?src=hp-dl-mostpopular) along with Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/elemhidehelper/?src=ss), 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

[Mikeb85]

I used to play 3d shooters (with surprisingly decent graphics) on a 200mhz pentium... And some slightly more crude 3d games on a 386 and 486...

[RaumTrug]

Check out AAlib, there's doom clones rendering gfx to terminal via ascii!

But bear in mind, games like hl2 don't suck all cpu just for the gfx, but also lots for game logic (collisions etc...), physics etc. - might blast a 486. Rendering an animated Mesh with fewer pixels (or...say...ascels) still requires to calculate the mesh with all geometric details.

edit: if you've got 320x200 it will still look better that 80x25 Textcrap. also a higher resolution graphics image is required to make aalib choose the right letters to approximate details in asciiartstyle. just usen 2x2 pixel blocks in 160x100 reso might still look better than ascii, and even be faster

[honeybear]

I used to play 3d shooters (with surprisingly decent graphics) on a 200mhz pentium... And some slightly more crude 3d games on a 386 and 486...

really. wow. which game? over wine?`