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Old April 18th 12, 12:36 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Lostgallifreyan
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Lostgallifreyan wrote in
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Means nothing to me. I can't handle games on computers, except where the
computer IS the game. Which is then very much afoot.. The closest to a
game for the sake of the game, that I ever got into, was the Notpron
riddle. I got to around 27 before I got distracted and lost motivation.
Not far, it goes to over 137 or so now. Maybe a lot more, I haven't seen
it for at least a year.



There IS one small game I took to... worth a special mention. A Flash game by
an Australian water company in conjunction with an animation company. It's
called Chasm. I totally recommend that. I remember the few hours immersed in
that as some of the best in all my life. I'm not sure what makes it so
wonderful, but it is... Maybe the fact that it gives us time to explore it on
our terms, without trying to dazzle us with its world. Which is shy I can't
get into all those big games, all the role-play and stuff. Can't be doing
with it.
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Old April 18th 12, 02:20 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Harry Vaderchi
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On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:54:48 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John)
wrote:

In message op.wcvdg2x91r0rdn@dell3100, Harry Vaderchi
writes:
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:57:41 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John)
wrote:

In message ,
Lostgallifreyan writes:
"Harry Vaderchi" wrote in
newsp.wcrs7jxz1r0rdn@dell3100:
[]
http://thestarman.pcministry.com/asm/fire/Fire.html

There's a nicer one, it starts low, and grows a bit, it looks fairly
realistic too. It might be what John Gilliver has. I remember it,
there's

where?


If anyone finds it, please sha I'd like to be able to give credit
where due. The file I have - flame.com, 453 bytes - is dated about 1995
IIRR, but that's probably when I downloaded it; I have the feeling it's
older than that. Unfortunately, not least because of the meaning the
word "flame" has gained in newsgroups, it's impossible to search for.

Sounds like a good description. The one the above code produces is
sufficiently similar that I suspect it's come from the same mind.
[]




I have that starministry one, and one that's 524 bytes - from a tutorial
8-
Programming Tips & Tricks

Issue 7

Edited by Tenie Remmel
-8

I'm fairly sure I've seen smaller ones.




through walls and go anywhere so long as they don't get lost trying.

A maze of little twisty passages, all alike?
[]


"Plugh"

(-: - and xyzzy to you too! Showing our age ... I remember playing that
on the university mainframe (Unix) around 1980. (I never actually
finished it - not sure if there was a finish, though I think there was.
I did feed the bird to the snake at one point, which wasn't a good idea.)

free bird

give emerald to troll
IBM mainframe fortran? also 1980.


I do also have a screensaver, called flamer.scr - again, can't remember
where I got it, but obviously based on the same code, though it's 26,624
bytes, probably most of which is the necessary screensaver bits.
Googling for "flamer.scr" seems to find lots of mentions of a file of
that name and 26k, though most seem to be torrents about which I know
little.


Hmm might be worth a go.



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Old April 18th 12, 02:25 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Harry Vaderchi
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On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:27:19 +0100, Lostgallifreyan
wrote:

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in
news
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossa...f_twisty_littl
e_passages


Means nothing to me. I can't handle games on computers, except where the
computer IS the game. Which is then very much afoot..


It was the original text adventure (or Interactive Fiction, as they prefer
it these days in rec.arts.int-fiction and rec.games.int-fiction).

text, so should be AOK under w98!

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Old April 18th 12, 03:35 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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"Harry Vaderchi" wrote in
newsp.wcyp9cum1r0rdn@dell3100:

It was the original text adventure (or Interactive Fiction, as they
prefer it these days in rec.arts.int-fiction and
rec.games.int-fiction).

text, so should be AOK under w98!


But you haven't lived till you try Notpron. Or Chasm.
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Old April 19th 12, 11:55 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
J. P. Gilliver (John)
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In message ,
Lostgallifreyan writes:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in
news

[]
I take it that "0-1" and "0+L" are ways of forcing your compiler to do
something.


Nope, just pointers. In local functions, I like to use O for output, I for


Ah, I hadn't realised they were ohs not zeros.
[]
What this does mean is that I might finish X98, because it is a very
different sort of work.


(-:!
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Old April 20th 12, 12:02 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
J. P. Gilliver (John)
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In message ,
Lostgallifreyan writes:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in
news
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossa...f_twisty_littl
e_passages


Means nothing to me. I can't handle games on computers, except where the
computer IS the game. Which is then very much afoot.. The closest to a game


Colossal Cave (a. k. a. just "Adventure") was/is a text-based game - you
navigated various locations (mostly underground) with simple commands
like "go north", "get object", "look", and the computer told you - in
text - what it saw. I have an affection for it.

for the sake of the game, that I ever got into, was the Notpron riddle. I got


(Any links?)

to around 27 before I got distracted and lost motivation. Not far, it goes to
over 137 or so now. Maybe a lot more, I haven't seen it for at least a year.

--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

All's well that ends.
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Old April 20th 12, 12:10 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
J. P. Gilliver (John)
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Default Why does Wikipedia keep begging for foreign fonts? (Now browser thoughts.) [Now reminiscences.]

In message ,
Lostgallifreyan writes:
[]
There IS one small game I took to... worth a special mention. A Flash game by
an Australian water company in conjunction with an animation company. It's


(Strange parents!)

called Chasm. I totally recommend that. I remember the few hours immersed in
that as some of the best in all my life. I'm not sure what makes it so
wonderful, but it is... Maybe the fact that it gives us time to explore it on
our terms, without trying to dazzle us with its world. Which is shy I can't
get into all those big games, all the role-play and stuff. Can't be doing
with it.


(I think you'd like Colossal Cave. No role-playing.) Again, any links to
Chasm? If it gave you such pleasure ...
--
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All's well that ends.
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Old April 20th 12, 09:50 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Harry Vaderchi
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On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:10:45 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John)
wrote:

In message ,
Lostgallifreyan writes:
[]
There IS one small game I took to... worth a special mention. A Flash
game by
an Australian water company in conjunction with an animation company.
It's


(Strange parents!)

called Chasm. I totally recommend that. I remember the few hours
immersed in
that as some of the best in all my life. I'm not sure what makes it so
wonderful, but it is... Maybe the fact that it gives us time to explore
it on
our terms, without trying to dazzle us with its world. Which is shy I
can't
get into all those big games, all the role-play and stuff. Can't be
doing
with it.


(I think you'd like Colossal Cave. No role-playing.) Again, any links to
Chasm? If it gave you such pleasure ...



an early hit on "game chasm"
http://www.miniclip.com/games/chasm/en/
seems to be the one; there are/were other graphic games;
I particularly liked the challenges in lineage II's dwarf complete;
there's one timed part but it's mostly logic puzzles; no longer at the
japanese website, but here's a copy

http://eightfoldgames.com/game/dwarf-complete/

I play this on a Sunday (requires java)
http://www.igoweb.org/~wms/rushHour/

There's another set of flash puzzle games that are a bit surreal, but I
can't remember the name now - the first one you have to redirect an
oncoming asteroid? to stop it hitting your planet (you're a white ghosty
thing and you fly your Eastern European cola can to it at the start).

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Old April 20th 12, 11:44 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Lostgallifreyan
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"Harry Vaderchi" wrote in newsp.wc12uvq01r0rdn@dell3100:

There's another set of flash puzzle games that are a bit surreal, but I
can't remember the name now - the first one you have to redirect an
oncoming asteroid? to stop it hitting your planet (you're a white ghosty
thing and you fly your Eastern European cola can to it at the start).


Samorost? A flash game. I like those because they save easily, and are self
contained.
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Old April 20th 12, 11:51 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Lostgallifreyan
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"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in
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(I think you'd like Colossal Cave. No role-playing.) Again, any links to
Chasm? If it gave you such pleasure ...


Not sure, I saved it.. I also had to pick out the URL's to various component
files it had, for sounds and a timer. Colossal Cave sounds good, like they
have the right idea, a world that draws people in, instead of blatting at
them. Got to say I liked HalfLife, the little I played of it. So much
attention to detail. But I either prefer to use the computer itself as the
game (is why I like the Notpron riddle), or to play Flash games like
Catapult. Mindless, harmless (but sadistic) fun. And at times, the
earlier Miniputt flash games. Another keeper is 'Pearls Before Swine'. That
geezer with the tallow-candle face and the weird attitude. LIke a showman
from Rod Serling's fairground.
 




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