New Jonathan Coulton text adventure/classic terminal music video

David Griffith dave at 661.org
Sat Apr 8 01:15:08 CDT 2017


On April 6, 2017 10:32:34 AM PDT, "Shoppa, Tim via cctalk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>Yes, I know the video was made by using “retro-terminal” software
>http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/<http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/>
>on modern hardware, but the spirit of the Infocom games is still there
>:
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvVNxqosZ7s
>
>The spot halfway through where the screen matches the lyrics is really
>cool.
>
>I seem to recall the Infocom games could “pace” with realtime delays in
>the text scrolling but that may be mis-remembering things.
>
>Tim.

The z-machine can do timed events, but not the kind of text timing shown in the video.
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David Griffith
dave at 661.org


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