quote:Original post by Anonymous Poster
Nice contest idea.
Some clarifications:
1) Are custom fonts allowed? What about a custom extended character set? I assume not, since you ask for ASCII, and the images you post are of the most common extended character set.
2) Are we limited to a single foreground/background color for each character? Given the limited palette this might not be a big issue, but it is technically possible to have a single character made of two or more colors (say, half red and half green on a blue background). Is this out of bounds?
No, it must only be the standard characters available in video mode 3/Windows Console (otherwise it would be easy to just emulate a higher resolution by modifying all the characters).
Yes, in a regular console/text mode 3 you can only display things with a single foreground/background color. For the purposes of this contest you must also use the standard palette.
To help clear things up about this, if you can''t do it in a fullscreen Windows console with standard commands it''s out of bounds.