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A little note.

I can't make the quiz, I had it up to 30 questions and it crashed.
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I found a good site to make it at http://www.proprofs.com
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If someone can make it, credit me for the idea.
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If you don't, it doesn't matter.
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The best tileset resource is here: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Tilesets
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Author Topic: If you can recognize half of these symbols, you play too much Dwarf Fortress  (Read 1545 times)

sevestra

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If you can recognize half of these symbols, you play too much Dwarf Fortress
« on: August 14, 2011, 02:53:37 am »
Honestly, these are the exact specification that the symbols come from, also note this quote:
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IBM PC or MS-DOS code page 437, often abbreviated CP437 and also known as DOS-US, OEM-US or sometimes misleadingly referred to as the OEM font, High ASCII or Extended ASCII, is the character set of the original IBM PC.

Yeah, now look at this from the features page:
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Extended ASCII character set rendered in 16 colors (including black) as well as 8 background colors (including black).

Toady, you need to fix that, or is it just for easier explanation?

Anyway, the page is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 (If someone can make a quiz for this, link it to me!)

(Yeah, it's wikipedia, and you all probably know this. I'm just pointing it out for the noobs like me. :P)

EDIT: I hate my spelling.

EDIT 2: Title too long, spelling fix negligent, title fixed.
« Last Edit: August 14, 2011, 03:22:44 am by sevestra »
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dorf

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Re: If you can recognize half of these symbols, you play too much Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2011, 03:04:58 am »
Oh, I thought you were going to give us a test to see how many symbols we recognize.
With scores any everything! :(
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sevestra

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Re: If you can recognize half of these symbols, you play too much Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2011, 03:20:08 am »
I can if you want, but I'd be too distracted for it, maybe someone who is interested can PM one to me, I'll update the OP and give them FULL credit! How about that? Plus, I'm too noob for something like that. I might look up a quiz making game or something.
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sevestra

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Re: If you can recognize half of these symbols, you play too much Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2011, 03:36:19 am »
I'm working on the quiz now, someone close this thread.
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