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- "You are likely to be eaten by a grue" - The rap video
- What is a Grue?No one has ever seen one. It lives in the darkest depths, its appetite for cave adventurers tempered only by it's fear of light. If you were dumb enuf to wander into the caves without lighting your lamp (or even remebering to pick up...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
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- Geek Trivia: Game within a (video) game
- If one day you find yourself sitting down to pen that long-imagined bestselling science-fiction or fantasy novel and you're looking for one particular trick that will give your speculative story a sense of reality and lead to shameless marketing opportunities, just throw in a made-up card game or chess variant...
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- Geek Trivia: Game within a (video) game
- SabaacWas just a variation of Poker with one unique twist: Cards could change value in your hand.RE: Geek Trivia: Game within a video gameQuibble with the quibble....I am Canadian, and I would suggest Jay you weren't "wrong" just a little out of date.In the day's of my youth (60s),...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-25
- Dinosaur Sighting: The original Apple Mac Classic
- The Apple Mac Classic is one of the most famous and easily recognizable personal computers ever manufactured. First introduced in 1990, the Mac Classic was Apple's low-end under $1,000 computer, which made it very popular with the education market. In the next few weeks, we'll be cracking open this classic...
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- Geek Trivia: Cheaper by the d'oh-zen
- In a recent paper titled "Gauge/gravity duality and meta-stable dynamical supersymmetry breaking," a group of Stanford physicists introduced a new word to the string theory lexicon: Embiggen. Quoth the paper: "We could argue that there is a competing effect which can overcome the desire of the anti-D3s to embiggen, namely...
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- "You are likely to be eaten by a grue" - The rap video
- In order to apologize for the MS-DOS 5 upgrade rap I foisted upon everyone a few days ago, and reconfirm the eternal coolness of Zork, I give you the video to nerdcore rapper MC Fontalot's "It Is Pitch Dark," which explains how Zork and its ilk of text adventures helped...
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- Old Timers Unite!!!
- at 6:00 am PDT Monday October 15 2007 we should all be here to see what trouble we can get going in the discussions ]:)[ gg, that is 1 in the afternoon for you ;) ]Since a lot of us are online at that time anyway, it isn't hard to...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-11
- Pac-Man, the text adventure game
- What do you call the illicit love child of Pac-Man and Zork? Why Pac-Txt, of course. Rather than intuitively navigating a neon-colored maze whilst animated ghosts pursue your input-device-controlled yellow-orb icon, you instead wander a darkened labyrinth with only your wits and a text interface to guide you. Gone are...
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- How big is the Internet
- .19.2 billion?8.1 billion?Bigger than a breadbox?http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/15/technology/15search.html?ei=5090&en=f94199a293b0c97d&ex=1281758400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=printThink about this. If someone told you 20 years ago that.......... a Google was feuding with a Yahoo ..... ..... what would you have thought?Do you Google?No, I Yahoo.Oooooooooookay.how big???no one really knows but here is some ideahttp://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htmI google :)hissssssyahoo users are nothing but a...
- Discussion threads 2005-08-15
- Growing Older (For the 30+ crowd)
- Growing Older (For the 30+ crowd)IF you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!! When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school...
- Discussion threads 2005-11-09
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- WOWYes but will I be able to play Zork on it???3Ghz????? - What??Can someone explain why 3Ghz is supposed to be impressive?? Dont most machines do that now anyways???Reply to 3GHzThink of it this way for the 3GHz processor. Normally you just have a dual core or single core processor...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-16
- Webcomic: An old-school antidote for l33t-speak
- Do you hate the h4xx0red version of English wrought by text messaging? Are you also an old enough fogey to fondly remember Zork and its ilk of text-adventure games? Then you'll love Full Frontal Nerdity's plan to rescue the HALO generation from their own linguistic self-destruction....
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- What's a troll?
- When so often within the community of interest the discussion spills out into the worldwide community of human interest, "troll" is invoked. It is used like spit to drive away one from without.Where is the border of within from without?And what, then, is a troll?BorderApparently, according to you both, I...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-20
- frotz 2.43 (Mac)
- Remember Zork, Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and other such games from the '70s-'80s? You know, "interactive fiction"? Well, frotz is the way you should be playing those games under Mac OS X. Detailed instructions are included, along with links you can use to find game files (which are...
- Software downloads 2007-09-10
- Short Dungeon 1.0 (Mac)
- A text-only adventure game in the spirit of the Zork and others from the 80's. Warning: you need a sense of humor for this one. Game is short, as it is experimental.
- Software downloads 2000-08-24
- Short Dungeon 1.0 (Windows)
- Short Dungeon is a very short text-only adventure in the spirit of Zork and other classics from the 80's. The game is short as it uses an experimental design engine.
- Software downloads 2000-08-30
- Stranded 1.0 (Windows)
- Stranded is an interactive fiction game like Zork. You type your commands to interact with the world. I designed as an educational tool, but everyone will enjoy it.
- Software downloads 2001-08-10
- Pentari: First Light 1.0 (Windows)
- Shattered trust, murdered innocence, and dark pacts have plunged the Kingdom of Pentari in chaos. Rogue wizards have captured the city of Delphin and hold kingdom nobles prisoner. They conspire to overthrow the Kingdom itself but they won't stop there. You are sent into the turmoil to strive against unknown...
- Software downloads 2003-03-18
- Westfront PC: The Trials of Guilder 19.0 (Windows)
- The Trials of Guilder is a large adventure game similar to Zork and other text adventures. The game features a MUD-like battle engine, complete with bodyguards, spells, magic, and 'intelligent' equipment. With five continents, a myriad of quests and enemies to battle, and a strange gaming environment, the Trials of...
- Software downloads 2003-11-13
- Questing before the age of WoW
- What is your quest?World Of Warcraft is currently the top online game and it's only getting bigger. Long before WoW however, questing games were standard fare for PCs. One of the earliest graphical questing games was Kings Quest. I've put a video up with a complete playthrough of Kings...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-20
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