Register to post in forums, or Log in to your existing account
 

Play RetroMUD
Post new topic  Reply to topic     Home » Forums » zMUD General Discussion
Starling
Beginner


Joined: 24 Dec 2001
Posts: 16
Location: USA

PostPosted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 5:22 am   

ASCII Acceleration
 
Way cool!
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/02/ati_ascii.html
Reply with quote
PHLN
Adept


Joined: 30 Dec 2001
Posts: 220
Location: Canada

PostPosted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 6:15 am   
 
.... huh?

zMUD General Discussion: All the power you'll ever need.
Reply with quote
Starling
Beginner


Joined: 24 Dec 2001
Posts: 16
Location: USA

PostPosted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 12:29 pm   
 
quote:
.... huh?


Okay, I had hoped that the web page would have been straight forward enough. That is my fault. This is a graphics acceleration card with the unique ability to enhance the drawing of ascii characters--hardware accleration. In other words, your MUD's text (Or any other text for that matter) displays much faster, as long as the application displaying the text takes advantage of the card's ability.

Anyhow, if there is ever a (Windows based) MUD client to support such a card, I would definitely wish it to be zMUD ;) MUD'ing in Windows just isn't the same without zMUD, or rather without the speed I find in zMUD. Faster would obviously be better though, no matter what the cost to me!
Reply with quote
Kjata
GURU


Joined: 10 Oct 2000
Posts: 4379
Location: USA

PostPosted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 12:43 pm   
 
Come on, that's a joke. I mean, this is a line from the article:
quote:

"I was frightened when the band of o's attacked me. They were so realistically drawn. It was scary."



Look at other news in the site:
quote:

Grade inflation has forced the Secretary of Education to adopt a new grading system. Instead of using the familiar A through F grading system schools will use the scale commonly used by bond rating agencies: AAA through Caa.



They post stuff like that. Plus, if you go to ATI's site and do a search, you'll see there is no such thing as an ATI Radeon 9500 ASC.

Kjata
Reply with quote
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic   Reply to topic     Home » Forums » zMUD General Discussion All times are GMT
Page 1 of 1

 
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum

© 2009 Zugg Software. Hosted by Wolfpaw.net