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And so does every other videodriver on the planet .. but this new catalyst is 
special.

For the coolness of it , the devolper team have added the option to select 
between a number of pixelshaders that will be applied to any 3D scene.

For OpenGL you can (amongst others) choose ASCII - And guess what .. it 
renders the entire scene in ascii-art :)

I just beat Xaero (the masterbot) in Quake 3 while running the ASCII shader :)
It was . . weird .. intriguing .. and hard since you loose quite a lot of 
detail this way.

It would be more playable if their ASCII conversion was better, it has a lot 
of room for improvement.
Heh .. they should have consulted Markus Gebhard *g*