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Flash Version of Adventure
chefmonkey writes "Of course, everyone remembers the old Atari 2600 game "Adventure." While you've been able to play it on a wide variety of emulators for a while, now playing in your web browser is just one click away. Yes, that's right, someone has gone and created a flash version of Adventure." I haven't checked it yet to see if you can get the "dot".
someone's found something useful to with Flash!
Lets see, i'm guessing the server gets /.ed in aprox 30 more seconds.
"Martha Stewart can lick my Scrotum......do i have a scrotum?" -- Sharon Osbourne
2600 game one Flash...too bad I can't play it in lynx...grrrr....stupid 386.
damnit! Beat to the punch! I was one of the only kids in my neighborhood to get a 2600. One of my friends (a rich kid) had this one and pitfall and brought it to my tenth birthday party. Thanks, Joel! (If you're out there)-Nathan Bonsal
Guess I'll just have to try it out at work then.
Everyone here uses Mozilla, right?
http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity558.html
"How do I get this freakin' duck away from me!?"
Kudos to those who get the reference. IN any case, this game's getting bookmarked. It'll be fun to tinker with.
This
you forgot goatse.cx, and lets see, bakla.net, and tubgirl.com..... you forget all of the cliche troll sayings.
"Martha Stewart can lick my Scrotum......do i have a scrotum?" -- Sharon Osbourne
I'm too young for this. I have it loaded and all I see are boxes and lines. Something must be wrong...
... during a slashdotting? ;)
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Er, I know we're all pro fair-use, anti-DRM and whatnot, but isn't this about the same as linking to a copyrighted MP3 file for the world to download? Seems like we're crossing a line here - Infogrames does own the copyright to this game, and I doubt they gave this guy permission to use it.
I'm all about beating down the RIAA and MPAA and such, but I'm a little uncomfortable at such a blatant disrespect for copyright law that's been around for far longer than the Internet.
I'm not old enough to have played "adventure" you insensitive clod!
What is a clod anyway??
"And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the World"
1 John 4:14
I beat it already. It reminds me of the good-ol days. Wasn't there more then 1 level I cant remember.
Atto
I didn't use the preview button, so get over it!!!!
Mike
Instead of playing it in Flash, you could just get an Atari emulator like Stella, and then get the Adventure rom here.
I am a genius; therefore, you suck.
Just download the shockwave file.
Have you been stalked by Seth today?
How does this get to be front page news? Seriously, is this just a slashdot DDoS attack on some guy's page? Old games have been created in Flash since its genesis, and this is nothing special.
If someone actually managed to write an actual emulator with Flash -- believe me, it could be done, as one was even written in QBasic a few years back -- then that would definitely be qualified for front page news. In fact, I'd hope it would be in the running for story of the year.
It's probably nice work, but c'mon, editors -- it's not worth slashdotting some guy's homepage.
They sold a game cartridge that just displayed
Click here to get the plugin
134340: I am not a number. I am a free planet!
"Note: Allow One minute to download. Requires IE5."
After Slashdotting:
"Note: Go to bed and have a nap. Still requires IE5".
or does this not seem like big news...
;). /me goes and plays Quake now
OMFG EVERYONE I CAN PLAY PACMAN ON MY LINUX BOX!!! LETS POST THIS ON SLASHDOT.
I like slashdot, and a lot of stories which are posted, but... this... well...
Never played the game so I will probably get flamed by the "Adventure" diehards
I am quite relieved he didn't re-score the game with his own music.
I mean.....
About the Music
People often ask, "What kind of music do you write?" Well, let's see. It's New Age'y, jazzy, classical and movie score'ish. It is difficult to define. I like the fact that it isn't easily classifiable, although it makes it harder to sell. It is soft yet substantial, light but profound, a great score to nature, and a great way to relieve tension in a commute through traffic. The music transcends the medium, where the instrument is no longer just a piano, and the sounds are more than simply notes placed in time. The songs possess dimension, and, because of this, the tracks are intriguing even after you've heard them repeatedly. - scottpehnke.com
MOR Snorefest ahoy!
I would like a windows emulator with flash capability for my Atari 2600. Then I would like a Mac OS X emulator for my C64. Font antialiasing is a must, of course. Or maybe a small linux distro on a 2600 compatible EPROM? Sure beats Xbox Linux anyway for sheer challenge and determination...
What next, a text version of Quake?
... wait.
Oh
There's something nostalgic about playing a game you played as a kid, way back when there was nothing unusual that your character was a pixel the size of your fist.
"Einstein argued that [...] God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer." ~ Brooks
I thought it was going to be 'Collosal Cave'.
bits and peace
Nicholas Daley
You are in the hall of the mountain king, with passages off in all directions.
A huge green fierce snake bars the way!
] OPEN CAGE
(releasing the little bird)
The little bird attacks the green snake, and in an astounding flurry drives the snake away.
Oops, wrong Adventure.
TANSTAAFI: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free iPod.
You can't get the dot. Worse, there's no sprite flicker. The sprite flicker made it possible to get to the secret room. Since atari games only could display 1-2 sprites at a time, sprites would flicker if you had more than 2.
Also, the green and yellow dragon speeds are switched. The line wall don't change to the color of the object you're carrying. And you can't switch to the harder levels, such as the one with the white castle.
You can tell I spent WAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY too much time playing adventure as a kid. Hey, it was 20 years before counterstrike!
fear my leet skilz
(uhmmm substitute numbers n'stuff in the right places)
Seriously, I don't remember it being quite so easy to defeat. Have my gaming abilities really gotten that much better? It was fun for a minute, but how could you possibly play that for more than 10 minutes without solving it?
-- The morphemes of your disquisition are ascertainable, but they have eschewed an ambit of transpicuous exposition.
2. The Atari version won't suffer from the slashdot effect like this flash based version will two minutes from now.
Romana: "How did you know?" Doctor Who: "Ah, well, knowing is easy. Everyone does THAT ad nauseum. I just sort of hope"
Was that it was fairly complex to solve it. Good times.
Well, I was just playing Baldur's Gate II earlier this evening, and to see how the level of complexity has risen in "adventure games" is just amazing. I solved Atari's adventure in about two minutes just a second ago. I have been playing Baldur's Gate for about 80 hours and I'm not done with it yet.
Flat5
why? because it was revolutionary (not evolutionary). it brought adventure games to 'the people', in a nice, easy to install plastic rectangle of joy. yes, it took all of five minutes to beat, but it opened the door, if even for that five minutes ;)
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Somebody get this freakin' duck away from me!
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...is Craig Pell's Indenture. Copies can be found around the 'net, but I found one here on RetroRemakes which has similar recreations for other games. Indenture is different from Adventure in that it includes an extended game mode that involves tokens and has some secrets that I'm not sure I've ever seen explained outright, although several people have claimed to have figured it out. Interview with Pell is here.
IIRC, Indenture was written in assembly and it requires a DOS-like system to run. Not sure if it'll work correctly on newer Microsoft systems, like WinXP, but you might get lucky.
Curmudgeon Gamer: Not happy
How about some of the real stinkers nobody wants to admit they remember, like Journey: Escape? Even better, E.T., in which the splash screen took up half the game's memory.
...or, worse even, the original (Atari) version of Pac Man, which may go down as the worst console port in history.
THE GOOD HUMOR MAN CAN ONLY BE PUSHED SO FAR
Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode 2F18
This is crazy, he managed to create a version of adventure where the graphics randomly slow down when being chased by the dragon!
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I did a little poking around and found a map of the original Atari version, including notes on how to get into the easter egg room. It would seem that this Flash version is somewhat incomplete, both the "microdot" and easter egg (as well as half the mazes) appear to be absent.
Interestingly enough, the creator of Adventure, Warren Robinett apparently also co-created my absolute favorite Apple II game, Rocky's Boots! Ah, the memories of building the ultimate death machine to tackle that little aligator at the end...
Huh?? i downloaded that file, and it worked fine for me,, now i can play it right off my hdd :)
It's arguably the first RPG in the universe, the first game with a bonified easter egg, and it's retro.
;-)
Slashdot is news for nerds and this is...
1] eclectic
2] stuff we did before nerds became "cool"
3] just plain fun!
This counts as news in my book -- it counts as a bookmark too
Now that I have discovered HomeStarRunner, I can never hear mention of the game Adventure without thinking about this
I always fondly thought back on adventure and how much I played and enjoyed it.... Now after beating it in about 5 min I feel that I should have gotten out a little more as a kid. Damn you slashdot and your nostalgia killing links!!
People seem much brighter once you light them on fire.
Adventure Clone for PC
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Howdy Nathanan ! Could you please be kind enough to give me my cartidge back, I never gave it to you, bastard !
Thanks,
Joel.
"Naughty, naughty, naughty, you filthy old soomka !"
http://www.scottpehnke.com/programming/adventure.h tml
if you want to play the game and still see the rest of your computer.
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You forgot:
3. The old Atari didn't suck 3 amps of electricity like your computer does.
Trolling is a art,
I even still have the maze memorized, and I was 6 years old when I played this?
I gotta go grab an Atari emulator for OSX. Grundle, Yorgle, and Rhindle, here I come!
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Here a quick way to enable and disable flash at will. You can have it installed and not worry about it showing nothing but ads. The instructions are only for Windows2k and mostly for IE, but you should be able to adjust them for any windows version and mozilla.
First, you must install flash on your system.
Second, mark the "Downloaded Program Files" directory as read only. This can be found by clicking on Tools->Internet Options. Then click on Settings then View Objects. This will show you where the folder is. Normally it's under C:\Winnt\Downloaded program Files. So mark is as read only.
Third, you need a back of the Flash.ocx file. So find it (normally c:\winnt\system32\macromed\flash) and copy it to a file named flash.ocx.bak.
Fourth, you now setup two bat files to run simple cmds. I've called them enable.bat and disable.bat.
Here's enable.bat:
pause
c:
cd "c:\winnt\system32\macromed\flash"
copy Flash.ocx.bak Flash.ocx
You are able to run this program when IE or Mozilla is open. To see the Flash file, just hit refresh.
Here's disable.bat:
pause
c:
cd "c:\winnt\system32\macromed\flash"
del Flash.ocx
Obviously nothing special. This command can only be ran if IE is closed. It'll say "File in Use" if IE is open and on a flash site.
For Mozilla, just goto Help and About Plugins. You find the Flash plugins and create similar bat files that copies and deletes it.
Now, someone needs to create a toolbar plugin that can automate this with the ability to disable flash while IE is still open. Anyone up to the task?
I really hate Dan Patrick.
and I'm going to drink till I get my fill
And I hope when I get old I don't sit around
thinking about it
but I probably will
Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture
a little of the glory of, well time slips away
and leaves you with nothing mister but
boring stories of glory days
Seriously... things like Stella and MAME are cool. Stella is cool for about 5 minutes and MAME is cool for about 10 minutes.
The best way to honor the good old arcade games is to recreate them under modern specifications. The authors of the classics pushed their available technology to the limit as today's programmers should.
Consider Arkanoid(Breakout)... that game was unbelievably addictive. Unfortunately, playing the emulated version just isn't the same feeling that those feelings of nostalgia promised to bring.
Then Reflexive Entertainment came out with Ricochet Extreme and I can't think of a more honorable remix of the original Breakout/Arkanoid games. Grab the demo off Cnet and you'll see what I mean.
While everyone else is trying to recapture the original Arkanoid, Reflexive gave it a new life.
The old games should be remembered for how hardcore they are in terms of programming. In every other respect, they should either be updated or left in the past.
Laws are for people with no friends.
But Adventure was tres cool; I spent many an hour playing that game. Combat was a favourite, but the coolest was Defender - the first game I flipped a million on. For the console, of course.
sadly enough, nintendo made an 8-bit game many years later that would have confused you just as much. hydlide. and everyone hated it, that is its legacy. i tried out this adventure game and i honestly don't get it either :)
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Well, maybe not. But seriously, I've had this dream for probably the longest time to implement a web server plug-in that executes the old text-based adventure game engines that ran games like ADVENT (also known as Adventure and Colossal Cave Adventure), which had first appeared in the good ol' days of the PDP-10. The idea was to add on to the adventure "world" all the time, so that a TEXT BASED GAME would eventually take up many hundreds of gigabytes of hard disk space and provide endless enjoyment for people all over the world. I imagined people from everywhere creating new areas in this virtual world and turning it into some huge, enormous monstrocity. In related news, I also thought that a web-based format would work extraordinarily well for graphical adventure games like Sierra made back in the days. Man, those were the good ol' days. Oh well.
If one could write an Emulator in Flash I'd be extremely impressed.
/.ing though.
Actionscript, while pretty wide reaching, is still limited in certian areas.
Frankly I don't see how you would ever be able to load a rom, unless you were able to convert it into some sort of readable format (XML).
*shrug*
Flash is great for manipulating Flash, it's just getting external elements into Flash that is the problem.
Agreed on the
I'm still waiting for Doom 2600.
What, no level 2 or 3?!?
All Your Memory Are Belong To Java
I always wondered how to get past that stupid snake...
:)
Now if I could just get the bird in the cage...
Who said Freedom was Fair?
I don't know what everybody else out there is experiencing when trying to run Adventure in flash.
Most modern browsers should run it just fine, I personally use Opera and it works just fine (I just had to enable popups for a second) I also know mozilla can handle flash as well as opera.
As a side note whenever browsing with these "alternative" browsers make sure to set it to identify as what it really is. I am sure if web sites more visiters using other browsers, statements like "IE 5 required" will start to disappear.
Considering how far Flash has come, it shouldn't be too much trouble to port most of these old games to the new medium. I don't still have my atari, parents sold it which cruelly limits my ability to play drunken games of Frogger
I'd love to see these games ported and archived. The internet lives forever (or so we hope, anyway). Space invaders, anyone? Networked game of Combat?
There's also "Zork" as a 404 error page: Zork
Link. :)
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A 386?! Quit being so cheap. Get off your ass and buy that top of the line Atari 2600 now and get your hands on an Adventure cartridge while you're at it.
Does anyone else remember the old computer Adventure game? I played it at a grandparent's house long ago, and I'm pretty sure that's the name of it, even if it wsa a completely different game. (Funny story behind it, but if I tell it now, I'll be modded offtopic)
Anyway, this one was pretty easy to beat. Wish the higher levels were in there too....
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How do you play this game? All that's happening to me is that I'm getting eaten by the dragons. Then a bat flies by, gloating with a chalice. I managed to get a black key to a black castle, grab a chalice from a red dragon, which then followed me until I got eaten.
Tweet, tweet.
Atari 2600 games often had numerous game variations, such as Space Invaders which had 112 different combinations of visible/invisible aliens, slow/fast missles, various 2 player options, etc.
For Adventure there where 3 difficulty levels:
1 - smaller map - only the blue maze, gold and black castles
2 - full map - all items started in a preset location(though the bat would move things around during game play)
3 - full map - all items started in random locations
We can't let him have his way!!!
Hehe, along with a lot of others, I think it's time to throw in my little nit-pick (c'mon, it's about an Atari game, I'm allowed, aren't I?)...
The yellow dragon isn't afraid of the yellow key. He's supposed to run away if you've got it, hehehe...
Don't get me wrong though, I'm just kidding- This is great. I support anything even on the subject =)
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thanks
Sometimes it was better to have no graphics as opposed to crappy ones. Later, they evolved a bit into having graphics and input commands (no mouse). Damn, but don't you miss the old "King's Quest" or "Space Quest" games (graphics and text input). Not the mousy ones but the ones you had to think and type?
Crappy graphics, but at least you could move with the keyboard and still type
"look under bridge"
"take ball"
Let's see, the topic is an Atari games called Adventure... the parent post asks a gameplay question about Adventure... OFFTOPIC??
It's a big step up from Galactic Blockade Runner on the TRS-80. That game used only ASCII art for the game display. I wonder if anyone ever wrote an emulator for that one... I loved Adventure when it first came out. Superman was another fun similar game that came out on the Atari a lttle bit later.
It's all about context. Before this game, there really was nothing like it. I know it might be hard to imagine these days, but it's true.
Whoops - I guess you can tell how old I am now!
funny you mention trying to port the legend of zelda; someone ported a little tiny bit of sonic the hedgehog to flash. it's pretty choppy, and not many moving sprites on the screen at once, but not TOO too bad.
not sure how possible it would be to make something nice out of it, though.
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/u /s
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disable:
%windir%\System32\regsvr32.exe %windir%\System32\Macromed\Flash\swflash.ocx
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The all your base video was released in flash, now if somebody would only port zero wing to flash to go with it. =)
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I think it's a shoe. :>
I use Windows... like a two dollar wh.. why don't I just go ahead and not finish that sentence.
I haven't played this game for about 20 years or something. When playing just now, I discovered that the correct path through the maze is still tucked away in some brain cells somewhere. What's even scarier is that I can see all the tiny little things in this recreation that aren't quite right, such as the fact that you can pass through the portcullis (which allows you to open it with the key even when you're not holding the key quite right), that the portcullis opens too quickly, that the magnet won't attract things on an adjacent screen when you hold it offscreen, that the chalice doesn't glow quite right, and so on. I used to idolize this game, if you can't tell.
Some fond remembrances. Sometimes the bat takes away your sword when you're being chased by a dragon, but he accidentally kills the dragon for you. Heh heh. I particularly liked it when you'd hold the sword in the wrong position when trying to kill a dragon, and it eats you before you can stab it. When you end up in its stomach, the dragon dies because the sword gets dragged in with you. You're still alive in its stomach but can't get out.
When bored, we'd try and collect all of the objects and bring them to the castle (the goblet last, of course). We'd bring them inside in the correct order so that they were all stuck to the magnet. You'd have to do it just right because they have a particular pecking order for attraction to the magnet.
We used to punch the dragon in the face and run away when it stopped to try and bite you. Silly dragon.
What a bummer that he hasn't done the other two difficulty levels. Or maybe it's just not working right for me. Sigh.
How many people clocked this game on their first play?
NB. I didnt but it seemed so easy - Im glad you could get hit by the red dragon a couple of times though or I would have had to break out the debugger to slow that puppy down. =)
Pixels keep you awake!
Is this the WHOLE Adventure? I didn't play as a kind, but I beat this thing in like 15 minutes. I tried to change the game, but it just stayed at "1" in the middle of the screen. Is this just the first level,or am I missing something?
http://www.neilpearce.co.uk/kaboom/index.html
and combat
http://www.neilpearce.co.uk/js/index.html
It takes a couple times to get this right, but as the character/avatar/green square guy bumps against the line, the character "jiggles", like in the original game. Do it for about three seconds or so and then push to the left (the opposite direction) and immediately release the button.
If you did it right, half of the character is now on the other side of the black line. If you push "left" again, you'll go back into the game, but if you push "right", you can actually wrap around and come out from the left side of the screen. You can try going one screen down, but the top wall blocks you from going any further.
Go one screen to the left and your stuck behind the black line on the right side of the screen. There doesn't seem to be any way out from this, aside from flipping the reset switch.
Whee!
text version of quake
all you had to do was ask..
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
The yellow key doesn't let you get throught the yellow bar, the black upside-down U doesn't -DO- anything and I can't get in the castles!
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And nobody has posted a manual yet. For those of you who are young whippersnappers like me, here's the manual: http://www.atariage.com/manual_html_page.html?Sof
Naturally only young people are allowed to follow that link.
Pinky: "What are we going to do tomorrow night Brain?"
Brain: "I would tell you Pinky but this 120 char limi
With my parents cleaning out their garage, I was recently reunited with my Atari 2600. Adventure was absolutely one of my favorites, so I popped the cartridge in and started running through the game. My wife was quite disturbed that I dashed right through the all the mazes. I know I haven't touched the thing in at least 10 years, but the game map is burned into my head forever. I'm sure I could have done something better with those brain cells, but I'm glad I didn't. Anybody else got video-game-map-burn-in? I'm pretty sure the original Legend of Zelda (for NES) is permanently imprinted too.
I just figured this one out: Move against a wall, hit the 'Screen type' switch so it goes black'n'white, hit the 'Screen type' switch again and you'll be able to pass through all walls on that screen.
:-)
God I'm sad.
Here is an attempt to port Circus to Flash. Although the sound is somewhat...well ehm...too modern. And speed is an issue too. And I do miss the 2 paddles on PC. http://www.romeen.nl/play/hoopla/index.html
Hey, do you think you could do me a favour and re-read the article you're replying to again?
Thanks.
This problem began only a few months ago. Anyone know if it's because a recent version of Flash is not friendly to slow CPUs, or is it just that some artists aren't testing their pretty creations on a system which is slower than their graphics workstation?
I just played it and its very much like the original, except there is no fog in the maze and the magnet seems to be broke (doesn't work across screens).
//m
Dude, with mplayer and aalib you can watch any movie in ASCII, including your favorite classic porn.
Mplayer supports the Ascii-Art library, so you can sit around and watch any movie you like in ascii. :)
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brought back some great memories.
A hand up and a foot on every chest...
1. You can't get through the yellow bar. The yellow key is for the yellow castle. WOW, what a puzzle!
2. The magnet attracts keys, you can also stun dragons with it. It isn't really neccessary. Even keys can stun dragons.
3. You get in the yellow castle with the yellow key. I won't tell you what to do with the black key, or how to get into the black castle, but maybe you can figure it out if you think about it hard enough.
Just flip the "TV" switch to black&white then back to color. You can now walk through any wall on the current screen, including the black barrier.
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Why settle for a flash version when you could hop on ebay and pick up an atari + games for well under $50? Just last week I got myself an Atari 7800 that way. I've spent this week finding my old paddles and cartridges... Flash versions might be fun, but you can't beat the tactile experience of the old paddles! d I really like the 7800 joysticks, too.... even worked on C-64's and Amigas!
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ouch, what an awful mistake! if you can find the DW games on ebay i definitely recommend purchasing them. or the ROMs ;) by far the BEST games ever made for NES. too bad they were horribly underproduced and negligibly marketed. everything2 has some good writeups on the DW series. dragon warrior 4 rules
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It's running fine for me on Phoenix 0.3. I assume Mozilla 1.1 would do just as well.
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Flash KoF
VERY impressive. Shows what you can do with flash if you are determined enough. I heard something about a flash version of Street Fighter Alpha but was unable to find any info on it.
It's beautiful....*wipes tear from eye*
Well done. There is a nice touch of realism that you might not have noticed: Turn off the console, and you get TV snow.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Flash has very big limitations, but people have done some cool things within those boundaries. Check out these Flash projects:
Cosmic Encounter Online
and my personal favorite (although it's technically a Flash projector)
Kill Hitler's Brain
They Might Be Giants did a whole (kids) album with Flash animations.
http://www.giantkid.net
come on fhqwhgads
That's only because you apparently don't really understand it.
This isn't the original Adventure game. It's a re-write. It acts like Adventure, but it isn't. It's like DR-DOS acting like MS-DOS. Or Exult acting like Ultima 7.
Sorry; you're really off base on this one. Copyright doesn't apply in this case.
Now, trademark is another issue, and it's not usually as cut-and-dried.
Ob: IANAL
HEY! how about you pulling your head out of your butt and reading the post he is replying to ... the poster was asking for a textmode quake, that which he linked to...Mmmmmkay?
try thinking before you post a complaint..
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great implementation
but it's far from being the complete game
-- SouNerd.com
Check out the "about" section on that linked page. It is rare to see such a nice narrarative of a programming project. He explains his motivation for writing the program (it was an excercise), goes on to talk about the design, with nice UML architecture documents, then and wraps up with "lessons learned."
Obviously, your TV was bigger than mine back then... my character was the size of a pea... ;-)
I would hope you know about this already, but go to the main menu, and select the video game background (button 13 i believe) and then mouse over the email button :)
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and it took me all of like 1 minute to beat it. Was the original game this easy or is this not really a port?
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