Originally posted by NOMADMAN
[B]ill count my keyboard and you tell me what im missing to make mine 'poor'.
It was a joke, hence the
(by the way, you forgot tab, and Alt-Gr versions!)

and yes it is relivate seeing that not all ascii characters can be represented in a text file

we're splitting hairs here but i thought it was important to correct you when you said that.
true - there are about 10 to 15 characters you cant put in a text file, and over a hundred more that you can't use by pressing a specific keyboard key.

who knows if someone will find this thread, make a breakout game with ascii as level files and expect to easily make levels by hand.
I don't see a game like this needing that many variations, as this style of game only needs 5-10 different types of blocks, maybe 5 colours of each (if different colours are used).

if for some reason there were more variety required, binary files would be much better.