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From: cfbd@southern.co.nz (Colin Douthwaite)
Subject: Re: The DOOM Figlet font
Date: 1996/06/25
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Frans P. de Vries (fpv@xymph.iaf.nl) wrote:
>                  _   _  _____ _      _     _____
>                 | | | ||  ___| |    | |   |  _  |
>                 | |_| || |__ | |    | |   | | | |
>                 |  _  ||  __|| |    | |   | | | |
>                 | | | || |___| |____| |___\ \_/ /
>                 \_| |_/\____/\_____/\_____/\___/
>           ______ _____  ________  ___ ___________  _____
>           |  _  \  _  ||  _  |  \/  ||  ___| ___ \/  ___|
>           | | | | | | || | | | .  . || |__ | |_/ /\ `--.
>           | | | | | | || | | | |\/| ||  __||    /  `--. \
>           | |/ /\ \_/ /\ \_/ / |  | || |___| |\ \ /\__/ /
>           |___/  \___/  \___/\_|  |_/\____/\_| \_|\____/
>
>
>With the sample shown above, I'd like to present the DOOM Figlet font.
>
>Introduction of Figlet for readers in the Doom groups: Figlet is a
>program to print text in big ASCII letters, according to a font definition.
>
>Introduction of DOOM for readers in the ASCII-Art group: DOOM is the most
>popular computer action game ever, and needs no further introduction :-)
>
>Last December I noticed that there was no Doom font in the Figlet archives,
>so I designed the basic uppercase alphabet A-Z and the numerals 0-9 in the
>style of the DOOM logo.  Unfortunately I never got around to turning them
>into a proper font definition file, until now.
>
>I uploaded the font to the DOOM ftp sites (ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/idgames/
>and mirrors), currently newstuff/doomfont.zip (to be moved into docs/misc/
>in a week), and it will hopefully be moved into the Figlet font archives
>soon, at ftp://ftp.nicoh.com/pub/figlet/.  Here you can also find the Figlet
>program, and additional fonts and utilities.
>
>Hope you like it :)
>-- 
>Frans P. de Vries | fpv@xymph.iaf.nl | Rec.Games.Computer.Doom FAQ maintainer


Hmm...I heard that Doom now takes second place to Cosmic-Wimpout, a 
board game...played on a cloth not a board...using 5 dice but with 
no rules except those you are encouraged to make for yourself...like 
the one below mentioned by Erich Schneider.


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In Message-ID: <vyenn7iy8m.fsf@csdl.tamu.edu> Date: 22 Jun 1996
From: erich@csdl.cs.tamu.edu (Erich Schneider) wrote:

> I am somewhat unclear on _Cosmic Wimpout_'s "Futtless Rule". I 
> will describe what I believe the correct interpretation to be, and 
> would appreciate my description being corrected.  

> At any time when one is not in the "flash clearing" state, one is 
> rolling N (N in 1..5) dice. If N >= 3 one can roll three of the 
> same face, getting a flash. When this happens, the flash dice and 
> any other scoring dice (5s and 10s) are set aside, leaving a set 
> of S dice behind. If S is not empty, let S' be S, otherwise (when 
> S is empty) let S' be all of the dice. The dice in S' must then be 
> rolled until they score (via either a 5, 10, sun, another flash 
> (which must itself be cleared), or freight train) without any die 
> matching the flash face, or wimp out (without matching the flash 
> face?). In the former case one gets the points and leaves the 
> flash clearing state, in the latter one loses all points 
> accumulated that turn and one's turn ends.  

Enjoy !   8-)

Bye,