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Re: predigested pap (was Re: Star Destroyer
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Thu, 7 Nov 2002 17:39:28 GMT
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Sean Devolites wrote:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Alfred Speredelozzi writes:
> > Keyboard?!?!
> Yep, keyboard : )
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> > Point and Click baby. If you have to type something... move on. ;)
> ahhh. But I see you have just used a keyboard, eh? : )
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> > Seriously, I remember the when I was in jr high and playing zork went from
> > typing commands to clicking the mouse. Far less enjoyable experience, if
> > you ask me. [the mouse alone, that is)
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> > -Alfred
> What in the I-can't-use-the-word is Zork?
> Old-timers game I'm sure : )
http://thcnet.net/error/index.php
(that's one weird looking URL, but go check it out...)
Zork, while not the first text adventure game (Interactive Fiction as
they call it these days), was one of the first to really implement an
extensive parser.
Here's another link:
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/zork1.html
An if you're interested in Interactive Fiction, the following is
probably the premier site:
http://www.inform-fiction.org/
Zork and related games have been given a great lease on life due to
Infocom's decision to implement a byte code virtual machine when they
ported it to the TRS-80. Dedicated fans have reverse engineered this
virtual machine, and it has been ported to just about every platform
which supports the input and output requirements of the text adventure
games (I have Zork installed on my Palm Pilot for example). Then in 1993
Graham Nelson implemented a compiler which targetted this virtual
machine, and now many fans of Interactive Fiction have continued writing
new games.
Frank
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| (...) The original Zork also circulates. It's substantially identical to the commercial versions, but fine details were edited, just as they were edited between the early microcomputer editions and the definitive 1983 releases. (bugs and all: 'who (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Yep, keyboard : ) (...) ahhh. But I see you have just used a keyboard, eh? : ) (...) What in the I-can't-use-the-word is Zork? Old-timers game I'm sure : ) Hasta La Vista, Sean P.S No harm meant by Old-timers, but its the truth! (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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