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I've opened the window!!!
You are facing the north side of a white house. There is no door here,
and all the windows are barred.
>get bar
I can't see one here.
>south
The windows are all barred.
>east
You are behind the white house. In one corner of the house
there is a window which is slightly ajar.
>open window
With great effort, you open the window far enough to allow passage.
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The live action sequences are unreal!
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Diplomacy by email is exciting, and I imagine it was by mail back in the day.
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I tried to go up the stairs even after the game warned me...
You are in the kitchen of the white house. A table seems to have
been used recently for the preparation of food. A passage leads to
the west, and a dark staircase can be seen leading upward. To the
east is a small window which is open.
>up stairs
It is pitch dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
>up stairs
Oh, no! You walked into the slavering fangs of a lurking grue.
You clearly are a suicidal maniac. We don't allow psychotics in the
dungeon, since they may harm other adventurers. Your remains will be
installed in the land of the living dead, where your fellow adventurers
may gloat over them.
Your score is 15 [total of 585 points], in 98 moves.
This gives you the rank of Beginner.
The game is over.
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Typical beginner move!
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Super Lloyd wrote: Typical beginner move!
so true!
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I had to find out what that phrase meant...Zork III - Wikipedia[^] I am not an insider of Zork. My friend had the Atari 800 and I had no computer.
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Amazing!
Next.... Master of Orion 2?
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I can recommend Remnants-of-the-precursors[^]
It's an open source clone of the original Master of Orion game written in Java.
Nice job for Raddevus to translate it to .NET
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Ooo.... I have to check it out...
I am doing a Master of Orion (table top, pen and paper) RPG, and I need the spaceship specs!
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Just ran it, very good first impression!
Although.. game broken! Can't play Elerian or a customized race!
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Time to rewrite it in .NET
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Well, I can't but add : Travel Oregon !
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musefan wrote: Should have said you had been waiting so long...
I've also been waiting to make my first $1 million. Can you lend a hand?
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Sorry, I work in GBP (£).
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We had a local band called Zork Aan Mijn Vork (Zork On My Fork).
I've seen them live once or twice I think, but I don't think they exist anymore.
Can't find them on YouTube either.
I never knew if the name was somehow related to the game.
You can also get the Zork games on GOG.com by the way: The Zork Anthology on GOG.com[^]
Never played them myself though.
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Sander Rossel wrote: Never played them myself though.
How dare you!!
Holds hand out waiting for Sander to hand in his Official Geek card.
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I've got enough geek credits to survive this one
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After lots of struggling and some creative coding I have made my IoT device with no screen and no buttons whatsoever automatically hop on a network and publish itself.
The only thing you need to do when you first power it on is press the WPS button on your router.
I haven't seen other people's code that does this on their Arduinos or ESP32s. I'm kind of hoping this is novel.
I love it though. It's a self contained little black box.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Exploit it fully (possibly on the Dark Web):
Sell the little devices where the purchaser surreptitiously leaves them in the homes of not-really-friends. The little box eventually is connected and can be used for all sorts of lovely mischief now that it's part of their network.
Whoo hoo! You'll be rich! I wouldn't mind adequate (or better still, substantial) remuneration from that vast hoard of cash and bitcoin you'll accumulate.
Ravings en masse^ |
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Hahaha. Actually that's a really good idea. It could be like, a toaster or something. But it just sits there, maybe for a year, listening.. waiting.. until you hit that WPS button. Then it's on!
Real programmers use butterflies
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I do not know what and how you done, but I had an arduino based project where the device scanned available networks and connected the correct one based on some secret key... So no configuration needed after the device turned on, you saw it connecting to the central server and start sending in data...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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