27 Nov
2005
27 Nov
'05
8:18 a.m.
Some of you who lived in the RT-11 world may remember this little
time-waster:
<http://thcnet.net/thispagedoesntexist/yadayadaayadaa/zorkrules>
Jim
27 Nov
27 Nov
8:49 a.m.
New subject: Interesting question - What happened to WOPR???
While not a REAL Vintage Computer, it's something that is burned into
all of our memories from 1983... So what happened to the infamous "Prop"
Curt
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8:50 a.m.
On Sunday 27 November 2005 08:18, Jim Arnott wrote:
Some of you who lived in the RT-11 world may remember
this little
time-waster:
<http://thcnet.net/thispagedoesntexist/yadayadaayadaa/zorkrules>
Jim
Fond remembrances!
Where can I locate the RT source?
Cheers,
Lyle
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"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
10:18 a.m.
Lyle Bickley <lbickley at bickleywest.com> wrote:
On Sunday 27 November 2005 08:18, Jim Arnott wrote:
Do a Google search for "Dungeon" and "Supnik". Bob's translation
was
Some of you who lived in the RT-11 world may
remember this little
time-waster:
<http://thcnet.net/thispagedoesntexist/yadayadaayadaa/zorkrules>
Jim
Fond remembrances!
Where can I locate the RT source?
Cheers,
Lyle
--
Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero" from MDL into Fortran, it has since been translated
from Fortran into
C. Bob also did a version for the DG Nova's Fortran.
Tim.
4:21 p.m.
Tim Shoppa wrote:
Lyle Bickley <lbickley at bickleywest.com>
wrote:
"A cheering band of friendly elves welcome you to...
Colossal Cave Adventure"
http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/
On Sunday 27 November 2005 08:18, Jim Arnott
wrote:
Do a Google search for "Dungeon" and "Supnik". Bob's translation
was
from MDL into Fortran, it has since been translated from Fortran into
C. Bob also did a version for the DG Nova's Fortran.
Tim.
.
Some of you who lived in the RT-11 world may
remember this little
time-waster:
<http://thcnet.net/thispagedoesntexist/yadayadaayadaa/zorkrules>
Jim
Fond remembrances!
Where can I locate the RT source?
Cheers,
Lyle
--
Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
4:43 p.m.
On 28/11/05 00:21, "woodelf" <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
"A cheering band of friendly elves welcome you to...
Colossal Cave Adventure"
http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/
Dammit, I've got to get one of my PDPs going so I can play ADVENT again,
assuming my RL02s are still readable :)
"a hollow voice says...."
A
28 Nov
28 Nov
3:20 a.m.
Some of you who lived in the RT-11 world may remember
this little
time-waster:
<http://thcnet.net/thispagedoesntexist/yadayadaayadaa/zorkrules>
I actually remember it from VMS.
Doesn't seem to work for me, though. When I open the mailbox, it
reveals a leaflet - but then when I try to pick up the leaflet, it
doesn't work:
You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded
front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
open mailbox
Opening the mailbox reveals:
A leaflet.
________________________________________________________________
but then when I type "get leaflet" into the field, I get
You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded
front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
get leaflet
I can't see one here.
________________________________________________________________
/~\ The ASCII der Mouse
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10:56 a.m.
There is a
small mailbox here.
read leaflet get leaflet
I can't see one here.
11:52 a.m.
Rumor has it that der Mouse may have mentioned these words:
"I can't see one here.".
The mailbox needs to be opened first... which you prolly already know that. ;-)
There is a small mailbox here.
read leaflet get leaflet
I can't see one here.
I've also tried moving around - and yes, I know the
game fairly well; I
beat the version we had on VMS back in my larval-stage days - and all
the results I've had are entirely consistent with the theory that it's
resetting the game state before processing each command. Maybe it just
doesn't like me, or maybe I'm doing something wrong....
Maybe you need cookies enabled? The game would need to save state to know
where you are.
HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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11:57 a.m.
I've also
tried moving around [...] and all the results I've had are
entirely consistent with the theory that it's resetting the game
state before processing each command. Maybe it just doesn't like
me, or maybe I'm doing something wrong....
Maybe you need cookies enabled?
The game would need to save state to know where you
are.
Yes, of course. But I'd assumed it put that in the URL; that's where I
put it when I did a Web interface to a stateful game (blockade).
Now, well, it has the problem that it scrolls back to the beginning of
the transcript after each command, which is a minor problem. But since
I'm not likely to want to play zork seriously over the web anyway,
that's no big deal; it's still Pretty Cool. It even accepts the
INCANTation which I find I still have memorized from my VMS
zork-playing days. Ah, the things I spend gray cells on.... :-)
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3:14 p.m.
On 11/28/05, der Mouse <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca> wrote:
...it's still Pretty Cool. It even accepts the
INCANTation which I find I still have memorized from my VMS
zork-playing days. Ah, the things I spend gray cells on.... :-)
Indeed... INCANTations were a major pain for me to properly implement
on ZDungeon, especially because of the limitations of the Z-machine
(no 'username', part of the hashing process). It really mattered to
me because the original MDL code had a check for certain usernames
(the Implementors), so as I do my regression testing against a real
copy running on the "Panda" distribution of klh10 w/TOPS-20, it's nice
to know, say, MAA's incantation.
Inform doesn't handle character strings well (you have to redirect the
output stream to an array and print things to it, then you can examine
things a character at a time), but it _was_ eventually possible to
craft an INCANT routine that was bit-for-bit compatible with the MDL.
That having been said, I'm reasonably certain that VMS incantations
are not identical to MDL incantations; ah, well.
-ethan
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