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Re:What they don't tell you about being a game developer by pindi on Friday November 23, 2012 @02:25PM (#4823322)
Not quite: Dwarf Fortress has always used OpenGL (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=28841.0) to render tiles that just happen to be ASCII characters onto the screen. The fan effort was to port it to SDL, making it much more efficient.
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