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>>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.

> Screenshots?

OK .. I posted one in alt.binaries.pictures.ascii for you.
I think it's easy to see that the quality of its conversion isn't exactly stellar.

But it's extremely fast .. I can't feel any slowdown when using a smartshader 
effect.