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Multiplayer Space Quest in a Browser

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the taran-meets-roger-wilco dept.

Martin Kool writes "As a sequel to Quek we at Q42 are proud to present another DHTML javascript showcase: Good Old Adventures Remember the classic adventures games like Larry and Space Quest? Well, now you can play them online, multiplayer, right there in your browser." My favorite part about playing old Sierra games was watching and waiting for the screen to finish flood filling. Thankfully these are much quicker.

17 of 185 comments (clear)

  1. How sad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    later.

  2. I'm considering something by Gaboo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp dude roXXorz!! pwnt

  3. cool by mortalic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    cool, that's better than yahoo games anyday!

  4. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp goes out to all my consultin homiez at psu from beaver.

  5. So sad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Such a fast slashdotting...

  6. FP OMG ROXOR by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YES I DID IT FP WOOT

  7. Awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The old sierra series hold some of my greatest gaming memories. Seeing them again in any incarnation is cool!!!
    Bring back games of substance like this I say, I've certainly ad my fill of FPS games!

  8. Re:Does not work in mozilla by mAineAc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have a hard time with opera myself

  9. Larry and Space Quest? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What about michael jackson's several distorted face?

    And how he plays with kids?

  10. Multiplayer Space Trader by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Check out the class multiplayer game space trader

    www.berigames.com/skt

    This one is specially formatted for the danger sidekick mobile device.. pretty cool

  11. A question for /. readers.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    HELP NEEDED - Switching to Linux from Windows

    About 3 hours ago, I bought SuSE Linux 8.1 Professional for 79.99.

    Should I return it and get the $149.99 RedHat 8.0 Professional ?

    Which is the best Linux Distro ? And which has the best usability (fonts, performance, compabitility etc.) vs price ratio ?

    I am also planning to run a website using slashcode someday...

    (I have extensive programming experience on IBM OS/400 and Windows (95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP). I worked on C/C++ and Unix in college (days of vi editor) so I am hoping that switching to Linux won't be too difficult)

    Thanks /. readers for your suggestions :-)

  12. Re:Linux? I cunt bitch menstrual bloody tampon fag by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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It is the consensus of society on our minimum standards of behavior. It takes more than a mass of rancorous, disloyal Luddites to nourish children with good morals and self-esteem. It takes a great many thoughtful and semi-thoughtful people who are willing to instill a sense a responsibility and maturity in those who change the course of history. To inform you of the grounds upon which I base my shell games, I offer the following. Given the public appetite for more accountability, I can barely contain myself from going into a laughing fit when I see one of these yawping paper-pushers. Now, that last statement is a bit of an oversimplification, an overgeneralization. But it is nevertheless substantially true. I won't bore you with the details, but suffice it to say that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. 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I honestly don't want my community tainted with such blatant McCarthyism. But you knew that already. So let me add that his plans for the future have merged with fogyism in several interesting ways. Both spring from the same kind of reality-denying mentality. Both exercise both subtlety and thoroughness in managing both the news and the entertainment that gets presented to us. And both form the association in the public's mind between any vituperations he disagrees with and the ideas of hate and violence and illegality. My prediction that Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead would base racial definitions on lineage, phrenological characteristics, skin hue, and religion came true so quickly, so brutally, so horribly, that even I was stunned by the magnitude and viciousness of it all. I cannot promise not to be angry at him. 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  13. one more thing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Also, I forgot to mention that I would prefer to get the whole package on CDs instead of going through the pain of downloading. Not to mention, it keeps Open source vendors in business...

  14. Slammer Worm - Reporter and Hoax by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Web magazine publishes, retracts virus hoax story
    By Jim Krane, Associated Press, 2/6/2003 18:56

    NEW YORK (AP) In a bizarre case of one journalist deceiving another, an Internet news site published then embarrassingly retracted a story that claimed a radical Islamic group was behind a virus-like attack that clogged the Internet.

    The Web site of Computerworld magazine published on Wednesday an article penned by journalist Dan Verton that he based on an e-mail interview with a person he identified as ''Abu Mujahid,'' a member of Pakistan-based Harkat-ul-Mujahadeen.

    Verton wrote that ''Mujahid'' claimed the group, believed linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network, had unleashed the destructive Jan. 25 Internet worm attack.

    A four-year staff writer for Computerworld and a former Marine intelligence analyst, Verton thought he had a scoop and wrote a splashy story that said Harkat had acknowledged releasing ''the Slammer worm as part of a 'cyber jihad' aimed at creating fear and uncertainty on the Internet.''

    But Mujahid was really Brian McWilliams, 43, a free-lance journalist in Durham, N.H., whose employers include Salon.com and Wired News.

    McWilliams said he had duped Verton because he wanted to teach reporters ''to be more skeptical of people who claim they're involved in cyberterrorism.''

    Experts have been unable to trace the origin of the so-called Slammer worm and say they have no evidence terrorism was involved.

    McWilliams' online journalism methods created the climate for deception.

    He said he registered the Internet domain name harkatulmujahideen.org one transliteration of the group's name for use as a ''honeypot'' to attract correspondence from Muslim radicals, planning to use messages received as story fodder.

    Traditional journalism ethics dictate that reporters don't misrepresent their identities. McWilliams defended the technique, saying it was ''in the grand tradition of undercover reporting.''

    About three hours after Verton's story appeared on Wednesday evening, Computerworld removed it from the Web site and replaced it with a disclaimer saying it was taken down ''due to questions about its authenticity,'' Editor-in-Chief Maryfran Johnson said.

    The story had also been advertised to 200,000 recipients of Computerworld's daily e-mail, Johnson said. Computerworld is a trade magazine based in Framingham, Mass., and published by International Data Group.

    On Thursday, Computerworld published a new story by Verton titled ''Journalist perpetrates online terror hoax.''

    Verton, who frequently reports on hacking and computer security, said he fell victim to ''an elaborate scheme to dupe security companies and journalists.''

    ''I feel like I've been had, and that's never an easy thing to swallow,'' Verton wrote. ''So, I'm left here scratching fleas as the price you sometimes pay for sleeping with dogs.''

    Not only did McWilliams cloak his true identity, but, McWilliams said, he left a mirrored version of the Web site on a server in Pakistan, and even sought to boost its authenticity by defacing it in an effort to make it appear that pro-U.S. hackers had attacked the site.

    Verton said the hoax was convincing enough that his calls to the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center turned up no clues to its inauthenticity.

    After the story ran on Wednesday, Johnson said she received a call from a friend who reported that McWilliams was bragging on an e-mail list about having tricked Computerworld.

    ''I couldn't believe a journalist could do this to another journalist,'' Johnson said.

    McWilliams said it's he who is incredulous.

    He said he had trouble believing Verton and Computerworld would publish such a story without checking the Web site's registry or his e-mail header information.

    Had they done so, they would have learned that Abu Mujahid was in the United States, not Pakistan. McWilliams said he regrets letting the scheme progress to the point of publication.

    ''I wanted to see whether he'd go the extra mile to see who he's dealing with,'' McWilliams said. ''I would've at least asked for a phone number. He didn't ask for any sort of corroboration.''

    For the magazine's part, Johnson said the experience was ''a real good object lesson'' in the risks of e-mail interviews.

    ''We've gotten so comfortable with the medium that we forget that,'' she said. ''Every reporter can learn from things like this.''

  15. WTF? by trasgu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No Java, Javascript, Flash, QT, or other plug-ins here. Just have to do without, I guess.

    KERMUDGION.

  16. Re:Sierra Games still work! by *xpenguin* · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    it's a little dated, and yes, those damned boxing robots are still friggin impossible, but it works.

    You can easily defeat the boxing robot challenge by slowing down the time.

  17. Re:Linux? I cunt bitch menstrual bloody tampon fag by Buck2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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