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Re: Geology from Outer Space
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:46:04 GMT
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Is that kind of like the saying, "What goes around, comes around?" :-)
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Cheers ...
Geoffrey Hyde
"Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> Dave Schuler wrote:
> >
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> >
> > > Oh, come, come now. They didn't really mean that every SPECIES of • animal
> > > went in the ark. Just every KIND.
> >
> > I see--two prokaryotes and two eukaryotes. *Now* I understand! What • could I
> > have been thinking??
> >
> > > You are lost in a maze of twisty little contradictions, all alike.
> >
> > Ah, Zork! An all-time favorites!
>
> Oh definitely (though I've never finished it, I've just always loved the
> idea from the very beginning when Infocom brought computers to Boskone
> to show off their nifty new game). These days Zork fits on your Palm
> Pilot. Several folks have reverse engineered the virtual machines which
> Infocom used and they have been ported to just about any platform
> capable of having programs loaded and providing a keyboard (or
> equivalent) and display. Then someone else wrote a compiler for people
> to use to write new games to the same virtual machine. Then to complete
> the circle, some of the original Infocom folks used the compiler and
> virtual machine clones to write a new Zork game... Conveniently, a few
> years ago, almost all of the Infocom games were released on a single CD
> by Activision.
>
> If you check out the Interractive Fiction section of my gaming links
> page:
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> http://www.mindspring.com/~ffilz/Gaming/Gaming.html
>
> you will find some links.
>
> I was starting to play with this stuff, then I re-discovered LEGO...
>
> FUT: lugnet.off-topic.fun
>
> Frank
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