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Rogue and Tetris ported to . . . . . Diablo II?!?!

Posted by Hemos on from the gettin-it-on-with-the-golden-oldies dept.

lord2800 writes "While Diablo II is nearing the end of it useable life-cycle, it would seem that Diablo II hacking is still alive and well. Diablo II hacking pioneer Syadasti (Mike Gogulski), has recently ported and released both Rogue and Tetris for Diablo II. Since Blizzard has not yet released their upcoming patch, is it left up to the open source programmers to breathe some life into modern games, with a little retro twist. A quote from the author: Finally, an answer to the question "what the hell do I do while my bot is running?" Play Tetris! Grab yours today at from Otaku-Elite. Requires bind.d2h and d2hackit. Self-documenting. (tetris.d2h features an autopilot mode as well, so if you get as tired of playing Tetris as you are of playing Diablo II, well just turn that puppy on and let the computer play for you) Syadasti (Mike Gogulski) is also the Head of Research for the d2jsp Development Team which, among other things, has embedded a Javascript engine within Diablo II to facilitate the creation of AI "bots" which can play the game on their own, "thus freeing the user from the tedium of playing with ... er ... for ... himself," he says."

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  1. Progress Quest by BabyDave · · Score: 5, Informative
    ... which, among other things, has embedded a Javascript engine within Diablo II to facilitate the creation of AI "bots" which can play the game on their own, "thus freeing the user from the tedium of playing with ... er ... for ... himself," he says."
    Sounds like Progress Quest
  2. Ultima Online by Alpha_Nerd · · Score: 2, Informative

    This stuff is nothing new... I use a program called easy uo to work my Ultima Online chars all the time. I can be working up magery and coding or working in Maya at the same time, in fact, I'm at school right now and I'm playing UO at home^^

  3. Working link to Tetris trademark by yerricde · · Score: 3, Informative

    TESS expires URLs at the end of a user's session. Here's a permane nt link to the TETRIS trademark registration record.

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    Will I retire or break 10K?
  4. Re:Employ him! by ActiveSX · · Score: 3, Informative

    your internet browser turns into a pacman clone

    Not that that would be too particularly innovative.