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Multiplayer Space Quest in a Browser

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.

185 comments

  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!

    1. Re:cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Please do not turn Slashdot into GameFAQs.com. There is a huge difference between a well crafted First Post and saying "cool!" everytime a story is posted.

    2. Re:cool by theNote · · Score: 1

      Except yahoo games don't slashdot quite so fast.

    3. Re:cool by mortalic · · Score: 0

      Easy fella, I didn't even realize I had a first post, I was just commenting my feelings.

  4. Floam by floamy · · Score: -1, Troll

    yay, games! fp.

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

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

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

    Such a fast slashdotting...

    1. Re:So sad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's not offtopic if the site was actually /.ed... another "/.ed" comment further down was modded as funny...

  7. Does not work in mozilla by krokodil · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess I need Oprah browser or something

    1. Re:Does not work in mozilla by gearheadsmp · · Score: 3, Informative

      Actually it does, you just have to have Phoenix .5 or Mozilla 1.2.1r?. I've run flash applets with both.

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

      I have a hard time with opera myself

    3. Re:Does not work in mozilla by Trogre · · Score: 1, Informative

      Works fine in Mozilla here.
      Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021202

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    4. Re:Does not work in mozilla by ahaning · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's right, you can get the latest Oprah browser here: ftp://ftp.oprah.com/pub/oprah/latest/.

      Be sure to get the new DrPhil plugin. It will make every webpage tell it like it is!

      (S'okay. I had to look up the spelling: Opera ;-) )

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    5. Re:Does not work in mozilla by JLyle · · Score: 3, Funny
      I guess I need Oprah browser or something
      First the talk show, then the book club; now her own web browser?
    6. Re:Does not work in mozilla by adjuster · · Score: 5, Funny

      I guess I need Oprah browser or something

      Isn't that the browser project that goes through horrible code bloat every so often, then gets all trimmed down and redesigned, only to bloat right back up again?

      (I couldn't resist...)

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    7. Re:Does not work in mozilla by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Works in Phoenix, it's just very slow -- the server.. I was there for a bit then left. Saw larry walk by and some ducks

    8. Re:Does not work in mozilla by Radical+Rad · · Score: 2, Interesting

      It was already slashdotted so I haven't seen it. But it uses flash? Why did they say it was 'DHTML javascript'? I thought it was going to be more like this startrek game.

    9. Re:Does not work in mozilla by MattCohn.com · · Score: 1

      You do know she only put out the magazine so she could be on the cover every time, right?

    10. Re:Does not work in mozilla by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      "I guess I need Oprah browser or something"

      It was named Oprah because it's the same browser available in multiple sizes. If you need help remembering which one the bloated one is, remember that it's Oprah with coffee.

    11. Re:Does not work in mozilla by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 1

      "Isn't that the browser project that goes through horrible code bloat every so often, then gets all trimmed down and redesigned, only to bloat right back up again?"

      Not exactly, the bloated one is the one that comes with comfort food.

      (Yay! I made a Java joke!)

    12. Re:Does not work in mozilla by helmutjd · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It doesn't use Flash, it's just really crazy DHTML/Javascript... I thought it was Flash at first, too, but if you right-click you can see otherwise.

      I'm not really sure what the point of the project is, though... they obviously spent a LOT of time making it look and feel just like the original games, but you can't actually do anything but walk around.

      Cool concept, but... could've done a lot more with it.

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

    YES I DID IT FP WOOT

  9. Yay more exploitation of other's IP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Please come up with some original games. Thank you.

  10. Linux? by Amsterdam+Vallon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm really into these new Flash websites, but I still think it's a shame we can't do Flash programming on our Linux boxes.

    Doesn't Marcomedia realize that ~ 25% of computer users *dont* run Windows?

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    1. Re:Linux? by Trogre · · Score: 2, Insightful

      One of the reasons why I say bring on SVG :)

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    2. Re:Linux? by jsse · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Doesn't Marcomedia realize that ~ 25% of computer users *dont* run Windows?

      They do realize very few among that 25% would buy their products for Windows. :)

    3. Re:Linux? by bergeron76 · · Score: 4, Informative

      Actually, you can do Flash using Apache, PHP and ming (the funk in your trunk). SWF is a reverse engineered version of flash that's free, open, and more importantly: scriptable!. Try generating real-time flash animations using Macromedia without headaches!

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    4. Re:Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      actually you can get the specs for macromedia's file format from there site, it's not like swf and fla files are a closed format.

    5. Re:Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Doesn't care - it's a troll. Please feed it no more. It's always after midnight somewhere.

    6. Re:Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Actually if you actually read the link you posted, "Macromedia opened the specifications for SWF in April 1998" sfw's have been an open format for a long time. It may not be the fastest thing ever but scripting in it is quite powerfull, and flash IMO is good for games on the web.

    7. Re:Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Eh? Works fine under YellowDog 2.3 (what are you talking about).

    8. Re:Linux? by YellowG · · Score: 1

      It's always after a midnight everywhere.

    9. Re:Linux? by Iffy+Bonzoolie · · Score: 1

      The thing with this particular site is that it's not Flash. It is just using Javascript to manipulate the DOM, repositioning images and such. The animation is done using mouse-rollover style image swapping.

      The code is pretty fugly, though. It's not formatted, and seems to be purposefully obfuscated.

      -If

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    10. Re:Linux? by TheRaven64 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Doesn't Marcomedia realize that ~ 25% of computer users *dont* run Windows?
      Sure they do. That's why they release all these products for the Mac, i.e. the platform most graphic designers use.

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    11. Re:Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I do, actually I'm dooing it right now and no headaches, thank you.
      Well, if you ask me to do real-time animations in DHTML and javascript then my head really hurts.
      A pie chart, ouch, don't even say that, stop, stop the pain, the pain...

  11. Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of Onan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    My favourite part was the big black bouncing "Censored" box.

    Wait, I mean my LEAST favourite part. I would have preferred to see the twelve or fifteen blocky pixels beneath....pixeeeelllls.

    Either way it was better than having to use my imagination like in Softporn Adventure.

    Multiplayer though, that's just sick.

  12. can we watch larry do the girl now? by craqboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    do we get to watch when larry gets freaky with the girlie? I hope so cause I hated the censor box going up and down instead of being able to watch larry get it on with the chick.

    1. Re:can we watch larry do the girl now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      Well the censor boxes are removed by preforming special objectivies in the game in order, on the 6th night after the spring equinox. I think that's the only way you can see nudity. But on larry 4, it's full blown, they even had Tracy Lords pixelized. OMFG.

    2. Re:can we watch larry do the girl now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's true, but you can just reset your computer's clock to the proper night. It's pretty cool (but pixelly).

    3. Re:can we watch larry do the girl now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Larry 4 is the best of LL series, and in my opinion the best Sierra published. Pity more people haven't played it, and it's out of print now. Kind of the same story with Larry 8, but for different reasons.

    4. Re:can we watch larry do the girl now? by King+of+the+World · · Score: 1

      Very funny.

    5. Re:can we watch larry do the girl now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      too bad 4 didn't exist, and 5 and beyond all sucked big donkey dick. The first one was retarded too. Overall, if you want a good leisure suit larry game, you have to go with 3 or 2. In fact, all of sierra's adventure games went on this sort of downward spiral. I remember playing Quest for glory 1(hero's quest, anyone?) and being amazed, then qfg2 and being stunned, then qfg3 and wondering wtf happened. Stupid new interface. Everyone liked the text bars. Hint to developers: text bars rock. Even if you have LESS options in a text input box, you still FEEL like there are more things to do. I still find new things in qfg1 and 2 to this very day. And I still haven't finished 3.

  13. Finally.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    we can all beat up Cedric the Own in one big gang.

  14. It's the newest marketing trend by tyrani · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Release a new game in stores, release an old game that anyone can play over the net.

    Simcity did it not too long ago. You can play the origional SimCityonline.

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    1. Re:It's the newest marketing trend by bfree · · Score: 1

      Cool, so I'll be able to go back and play Sim City 3000 and Madden 97 (for example, both of which I own) on my laptop under WinXP in how many years when they release it online. I try and encourage my copyfriendly friends to make sure they buy the games that they like, at least a few of them, but when I get a laptop (with Windows pre-installed and staying for work related reasons, though I dual boot) and can't install any (well F1GP3 but that's it great though it is) of my games that I mainly have from when I used to have windows around (99? but SimCity 3000 is a couple of Christmas's old) it makes me wonder whether we shouldn't devote more attention to getting some top quality open games done to make the games companies really earn their money if they want some!

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    2. Re:It's the newest marketing trend by SageLikeFool · · Score: 1

      I am pretty sure some of the Zork games have been around in this way for quite some time as well.

    3. Re:It's the newest marketing trend by ketamineX · · Score: 1

      Nice! I remember playing the original sim city for days on my Amiga 500.. ah, those were the days.

      It's really too bad that I cannot even build a city before having the Slashdot disaster destroy my chances..

    4. Re:It's the newest marketing trend by Cruciform · · Score: 1

      Heh, from the new disaster menu on the simcity website:

      1) Tornado
      2) Godzilla
      3) Fire
      4) Flooding
      5) Slashdotting

  15. Did you try to get the page to load? by LittleBigScript · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think it is ironic to read "...things are must faster now..." and then wait 2 minutes for it to load.

  16. /.'ed by Bios_Hakr · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't think thousands of users rushing to establish a connection to their poor web server was the multi-player game they had in mind.

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    1. Re:/.'ed by lizzybarham · · Score: 2, Informative

      Their Net Statistics page.

  17. 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!

  18. This reminds me... by sawilson · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Of the practice of sneaking text based games in
    daemons. I think either classic adventure or
    mansion was on one of the mindspring DNS servers
    for a while. You could play with nslookup. It
    went along the lines of:

    nslookup www.blah.com 207.69.188.186 forward

    and you'd get your request back and at the bottom
    of it would be something like:

    You enter a room and a loud clear voice says
    "ritnew is a charming word"
    or whatever your next move was. I'd love to find
    another one of these.

    1. Re:This reminds me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Unfortunately mispelling "xyzzy" with too many characters caused a buffer overflow, allowing the entire server to be 0wned. The concept of little "hidden" games kind of went out of fashion after that.

    2. Re:This reminds me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      The original used to be at hastur.rlyeh.net. Quite likely that someone set one up somewhere else, though - it's just data.

      Background at http://www.fataldimensions.org/links/dns-mud.php
      and http://www.lysator.liu.se/adventure/Various_compan ies.html.

  19. Not anymore! by slifox · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well they aren't fast anymore! /.ed :P

  20. Correction: Finally: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    we can all beat up Cedric the Owl in one big gang.

  21. Hideous Intentions by robbyjo · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, you guys are posting to Slashdot to test how your multiplayer module would scale up, eh? :-) Well, you got it... Time to get to more work, guys...

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

    What about michael jackson's several distorted face?

    And how he plays with kids?

  23. SQ4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    My first computer game was Space Quest 4. The intro was fucking hilarious, but too bad I couldn't get by that stupid killer droid. Was there any point to the energizer bunny? Why was it called space quest 4 when you get warped to space quest 12?!

    1. Re:SQ4 by NortWind · · Score: 1
      Was there any point to the energizer bunny?

      Did you notice anything stuck on the back of the bunny? It might be useful someplace else. Heh heh.

    2. Re:SQ4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, if you were playing the CD-ROM version, it's completely broken, and you can't get past the killer droid. In the old, floppy-based version, you just had to avoid the cyborg . . . if he got too close, he'd scream and then the killer droid would come and . . . kill you.

    3. Re:SQ4 by mrericn · · Score: 1

      The droid wasn't as fast if you had a slow machine. It was fully playable on my old 486sx, but impossible on my pentium 75.

  24. Wow, how.. umm .. cool? by Warin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So basically this is an IRC interface masquerading as pixelated, ugly, early 90's looking (by modern standards..those games were very cool 'in the day!') Sierra Game?

    While walking around as Roger Wilco or Leisure Suit Larry seems kind of cool, and you can travel the various locales and talk to other people, you cant actually play through the stories.

    So whats the point...other than a chat room you can talk to other old timers who remembers when it was cool to play the game when it came out?

    1. Re:Wow, how.. umm .. cool? by Iffy+Bonzoolie · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Sierra tried to do something sort of similar. It was called "The Realm." It was an MMORPG made with the Sierra interface. It sucked. As usual, Sierra discovered an online market before it's time and, as usual, completely failed to execute on it. I also beta-tested The Sierra Network (later the ImagiNation Network), which was actually really cool for it's time, but the internet was about 5 years from hitting homes, so the connectivity issue was too big a problem then, i think.

      -If

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    2. Re:Wow, how.. umm .. cool? by fmita · · Score: 3, Funny

      So basically this is an IRC interface masquerading as pixelated, ugly, early 90's looking (by modern standards..those games were very cool 'in the day!') Sierra Game?

      No, I'm pretty sure it was early 90's looking in the early 90's, too.

    3. Re:Wow, how.. umm .. cool? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Early '90s? Try mid-'80s. And they were never good graphics by any standard even then - the AGI games went for the absolute lowest common denominator. It sucked seeing them on machines that could do a lot more.

      Those games had two things going for them: they were portable, and they were easy. In particular they required no typing so even a console could play them.

    4. Re:Wow, how.. umm .. cool? by sn0wcrash · · Score: 1

      Ahh.. the memories. I remember playing thier RPG for hours. What was it.. Land of Yserbius? People were so friendly online back then too...

    5. Re:Wow, how.. umm .. cool? by Iffy+Bonzoolie · · Score: 1

      Yeah, Shadow of Yserbius was on TSN. That was way before The Realm, and it was actually cool. Death Darts, baby!

      Later they came out with an offline version of it.

      -If

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  25. Are these legal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Unfortunately the site is slashdotted (dare I say "farked"?) beyond reason. But I can't help but wonder-- if this is the real game, aren't there copyright issues w/Sierra? Or have they been given permission...

    Also, since I can't connect, could someone explain how Space Quest is now multiplayer as described in the story headline?

    1. Re:Are these legal? by Beetle+B. · · Score: 1

      I doubt it. I've talked to these people on the Roger Wilco's Virtual Broomcloset Forum (http://www.wiw.org/~jess/forum). If they had permission, they would have mentioned it, as there are other groups working on Sierra based games and none have gotten a definite response from Sierra.

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  26. Good Effect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant
    Slashdotted up the nuts. They totally brought that upon them selves.

    Nothing like celebrating your launch, with downtime...

  27. first time to have lag these games by craqboy · · Score: 1
    hehe....site most be flooded. whenever i move to another room it appears to be dark but its cause the site is so bombarded with hits

    Next week they will introduce Good Old Adventures Version 2.0 - Lagless version

  28. 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

  29. huh, I dont remember by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 5, Funny

    any 403 errors in the original space quest...

    1. Re:huh, I dont remember by WickedClean · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Reminds me of the old days when a floppy would go bad. Remember when you were ENCOURAGED to make backup copies to play from and store away the original disks. I had a few games where that was written in the instructions.

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    2. Re:huh, I dont remember by blakespot · · Score: 1
      Well, they don't make 'em like they used to...

      This article got me to pull out my original disks of Kings Quest that I bought in 1984 for my Apple //c and boot them on my Apple IIgs, 19 years later -- they lit up with ne'er a hitch!

      In fact, out of two oldschool, standard sized boxes of 5.25" disks (maybe 40 disks per) I've had one go bad, from '84. Every one of my not-quite-as-old Amiga floppies (from the late 80's/early 90's) still has its data, as well.


      blakespot

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    3. Re:huh, I dont remember by blakespot · · Score: 1
      Do'h... Here's my Apple IIgs pic...bad link above.

      Hell, Here's the whole damned list.



      blakespot

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    4. Re:huh, I dont remember by LordTherem · · Score: 1

      Starflight! The savegames worked by modifying the executables themselves...so unless you played off a backup copy (or the hard drive) the first time you lost you could never play again.

      Ah, memories.

    5. Re:huh, I dont remember by WickedClean · · Score: 1

      Total Sweetness!

      My first computer was a ROM 03 IIgs. It had a 3.5 and a 5.25 and a full 1.2 megs of ram! Woo hoo! No hard drive or modem, though.

      What do you use yours for?

      I see them on Ebay selling for less than what it costs to ship.

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  30. correction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    We could play it in our browser until you posted the link to /.

  31. 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 :-)

    1. Re:A question for /. readers.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      My advice is for you to ditch Linux distros all together. And since Linux From Scratch has made rolling your own something any pussy can do, I'll have to advise you to drop Linux completely. You could try GNU's GPL'd microkernel--and really I couldn't fault you for it. But, goddamn it's a microkernel. If it's really that simple, you shouldn't have a problem writing your own. With C++ and a little (lot) assembly, you'll be hacking away on your new OS almost immediately.

      Well--back to hand crafting my own IC under the microscope. Hope my advice helps.

    2. Re:A question for /. readers.... by Bozzio · · Score: 0

      Why not just download a distribution for free?

      I hear Mandrake is good for beginners. I started off with RedHat, which wasn't bad.

      Although most people won't agree, you could even start with Gentoo. It's very well documented, and pretty much forces you to understand important concepts. It's easy to set up, and the support is great (the forums).

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    3. Re:A question for /. readers.... by Bozzio · · Score: 0

      Hrmm, it shouldn't have taken me 8+ minutes to post that message / The reply about not wanted to download wasn't up yet.

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    4. Re:A question for /. readers.... by kuhn · · Score: 0, Troll

      Is this not off topic? oranges are like cannibals

  32. what is SWISH? by linuxislandsucks · · Score: 1

    yes you can swish has been out for about 3 years..

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    I would like to take a moment to resolve a number of lingering problems. Let me begin by citing a range of examples from the public sphere. For starters, I, not being one of the many insipid purveyors of malice and hatred of this world, do not find doctrines that are judgmental, self-pitying, and appalling to be "funny". Maybe I lack a sense of humor, but maybe if you're interested in the finagling, double-dealing, chicanery, cheating, cajolery, cunning, rascality, and abject villainy by which Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead "Penis Snoodleing" Crotch Sniffer may take credit for others' accomplishments by next weekend, then you'll want to consider the following very carefully. You'll especially want to consider that Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead has been trying for some time to convince people that things have never been better. Don't believe his hype! Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead has just been offering that line as a means to add insult to injury. Guess what? I am aware that many people may object to the severity of my language. But is there no cause for severity? Naturally, I insist that there is, because we can divide Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead's revenge fantasies into three categories: delirious, vapid, and fatuous. Developing a policy of inclusion will not be easy, because if it were up to Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead, schoolchildren would be taught reading, 'riting, and racism. Unlike Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead, I have chosen to take the moral high ground and will remain there. That is to say, Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead says that credentialism is a be-all, end-all system that should be forcefully imposed upon us. What he means by this, of course, is that he wants free reign to destabilize the already volatile social fabric that he purportedly aims to save. From what I understand, we must understand that his treatises are sheer idiocy. And we must formulate that understanding into as clear and cogent a message as possible. While there are many lame-brained bourgeoisie, Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead is the most perfidious of the lot. I must ask that his comrades maintain social tranquillity. I know they'll never do that, so here's an alternate proposal: They should, at the very least, back off and quit trying to step on other people's toes. He does not merely befuddle the public and make sin seem like merely a sophisticated fashion. He does so consciously, deliberately, willfully, and methodically. The salient point here is that I know that I cannot believe that Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead would consider slaphappy administrators as overbearing deadbeats. You know that. But does Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead know we know that? After days of agonized pondering and reflection, I finally came to the conclusion that every time Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead gets caught trying to divert attention from his unprovoked aggression, he promises he'll never do so again. Subsequently, his cohorts always jump in and explain that he really shouldn't be blamed even if he does, because, as they contend, divine ichor flows through his veins. Perception becomes reality if one is brainwashed for long enough. Or, to express that sentiment without all of the emotionally charged lingo, the main dissensus between me and Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead is that I believe that dichotomous thinking has stymied Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead's ability to reach solutions. He, on the other hand, contends that a richly evocative description of a problem automatically implies the correct solution to that problem. Will what I call spineless porn stars ever set the stage so that my next letter will begin from a new and much higher level of influence? Don't bet on it. When I first encountered Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead's policies, all I could think of was, "I appear to have gotten ahead of myself here." Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead is intellectually dishonest in everything he says and does. Equally important is the fact that Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead has -- not once, but several times -- been able to turn peaceful gatherings into embarrassing scandals without anyone stopping him. How long can that go on? As long as his cuckoo zingers are kept on life support. That's why we have to pull the plug on them and build a society in which people have a sense of permanence and stability, not chaos and uncertainty. His hypocrisy is transparent. Even the least discerning among us can see right through it. The law is not just a moral stance. 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. Of course, if Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead had learned anything from history, he'd know that I am now in a position to define what I mean when I say that it would be downright haughty for him to reduce history to an overdetermined, wireframe sketch of what are, in reality, complex, dynamic events. What I mean is that Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead sees only one side of the issue. He will almost certainly tiptoe around that glaringly evident fact, because if he didn't, you might come to realize that I unmistakably don't believe that it's perfectly safe to drink and drive. So when Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead says that that's what I believe, I see how little he understands my position. If you don't think that Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead speaks with such certainty and self-confidence that his intimates are totally convinced that we should abandon the institutionalized and revered concept of democracy, then you've missed the whole point of this letter. He says that black is white and night is day. Yet he also wants to destroy the natural beauty of our parks and forests. Am I the only one who sees the irony there? I ask, because he should learn to appreciate what he has instead of feeling so oppressed because he can't do everything he wants, every time he wants to. We find among narrow and uneducated minds the belief that my bitterness at Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead is merely the latent projection of libidinal energy stemming from self-induced anguish. This belief is due to a basic confusion, which can be cleared up simply by stating that Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead wants us to feel sorry for the subversive scrubs who judge people by the color of their skin while ignoring the content of their character. I feel we should instead feel sorry for their victims, all of whom know full well that I challenge Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead to tell me what, if anything, in this letter is not entirely truthful. I don't think anyone questions that. But did you know that his secret agents are the biggest effete, unpatriotic fence-sitters who have ever dirtied the face of the earth? Believe me, I certainly don't want to give Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead a chance to tap into the national resurgence of overt deconstructionism. His wisecracks are not witty satire, as Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead would have you believe. They're simply the deceitful ramblings of someone who has no idea or appreciation of what he's mocking. When I was little, my father would sometimes pick me up, put me on his knee, and say "The outcome of the struggle will ultimately be decided based on the number and influence of people fully informed about Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead's viewpoints, committed to Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead's defeat, and organized under sound leadership." Let no one say that his ideologies are not worth getting outraged about. No, this is obdurate anti-intellectualism and must be regarded as an attempt to fortify a social correctness that restricts experience and defines success with narrow boundaries. Only the impartial and unimpassioned mind will even consider that I, for one, want to give people more information about Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead, help them digest and assimilate and understand that information, and help them draw responsible conclusions from it. Here's one conclusion I truly hope people draw: You should never forget the three most important facets of Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead's snow jobs, namely their paltry origins, their internal contradictions, and their tendentious nature. Might I suggest that Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead search for a hobby? It seems he has entirely too much time on his hands, given how often he tries to overthrow all concepts of beauty and sublimity, of the noble and the good, and instead drag people down into the sphere of his own base nature. It's unfortunate that he has no real education. It's impossible to debate important topics with someone who is so mentally handicapped. 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. I do promise, however, to try to keep my anger under control, to keep it from leading me -- as it leads Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead -- to cater to the basest instincts of the most two-faced slumlords I've ever seen. Taco "The Lameness Filter Faggot" Fuckhead "Penis Snoodleing" Crotch Sniffer is not only woefully ruthless, but terribly childish. And that's the honest truth.
  34. 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...

    1. Re:one more thing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Just install SuSe. What problems are you having? (SuSe is ok, Redhat is best, Mandrake is ok)

  35. *sigh* by PhoenixK7 · · Score: 2, Funny

    My favorite part about playing old Sierra games was watching and waiting for the screen to finish flood filling. Thankfully these are much quicker.

    Not for the next couple of days...

    Thanks slashdot!

    Before you mod this as a troll put yourself in the shoes of the sysadmin of that poor server, or better yet: whoever has to pay the bandwidth bill!

  36. Any other Mozilla users that were lied to? by bergeron76 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The site says that it supports Mozilla, and the other Netscape "clones" yet when I load it in Moz. 1.2.1 I get a nonsensical site. Did this happen to anyone else or am I just overly intoxicated tonight?

    Jokes aside, I _loved_ the Sierra games and I can honestly say that they were the catalyst in my computing career/interests. I started with Space Quest I/II/III and when I upgraded to VGA I was all over SQIV. Kings quest, the Black Cauldron, and Quest for Heroes were among my favorites.

    Unless I'm mistaken, there's an open King's Quest project out there. I just can seem to find the link. Can anyone help me find it?

    (I have to get revenge on that witch that tricked me into her _pad_).

    --
    Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.
    1. Re:Any other Mozilla users that were lied to? by Bozzio · · Score: 1, Informative

      That happened to me with IE also. Musn't be specific to a browser... Probably a side effect of getting slashdotted.

      --
      I just pooped your party.
    2. Re:Any other Mozilla users that were lied to? by crazedmaniac · · Score: 1

      You must mean: http://www.kq9.org/ It's a fan-made sequel, still in development. Can't wait for them to complete it!

    3. Re:Any other Mozilla users that were lied to? by jolujogat · · Score: 1

      http://www.tierraentertainment.com/

      not discounting kq9.org that someone else posted.. but this has remakes of KQ1 and KQ1 (yes there was a VGA version of KQ1 but this one is way better and the VGA version of KQ2 is awesome)

      Enjoy.

    4. Re:Any other Mozilla users that were lied to? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Im not sure if this is the site you were talking about, but heres a link to a Kings Quest remake site I stumbled onto awhile ago. http://www.qknowledge.net/royalquest/index.html

    5. Re:Any other Mozilla users that were lied to? by Beetle+B. · · Score: 2, Informative


      I can run it fine on Mozilla.

      KQ9 - http://www.kq9.org (work in progress).
      King's Quest remakes - http://www.tierraentertainment.com - they've remade KQ1 and KQ2 for VGA.
      SQ7 - http://www.sq7.org (work in progress).

      As for the complaints about not being able to play the games, I think the developers got a little enthusiastic a little too early. They DO intend to have playable versions ultimately - it'll just take a while.

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      Beetle B.
  37. Re:How sad by trolltime · · Score: -1

    shut the fuck up, you fucking cunt rag. i fucking hate you, you cunt whorebag. fuck you. fuck you, get the ghey flu, and die. you cunt. die. die you fucking asshole. die die die. i'd cut your fucking throat and bleed you dead if i could, you fucking cunt.

    just kidding. cheers.

  38. SVG not reverse engineered by mdxi · · Score: 0, Troll
    SVG is not a reverse engineered version of Flash. It is a completely separate implementation of a Scalable Vector Graphics package. See the list of authors for something more authoritative than myself.

    As the above link implies, SVG is a W3C standard. It is even supported by modern versions of Flash IIRC.

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    Posted with Mozilla
    1. Re:SVG not reverse engineered by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      he said SWF, not SVG

  39. /.ed game server by grey3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    My favorite part about the old Sierra games was that I could actually PLAY them and didn't have to wait for the /.ed server to come back online, then drop off the face of the internet after the story gets re-posted.

  40. hmmmmz by spudwiser · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thankfully these are much quicker.

    Assuming they're not /.ed, which they are :p

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    .cig - what you do after winning a good flame war
  41. "Flood Filling" is a false memory by Minna+Kirai · · Score: 2, Insightful

    CowboyNeal is mistaken if he thinks a Sierra game like SQ or LLL forced the user to watch floodfilling happen. Those games used precomputed pixmaps for graphics- there was be a severe delay as they were loaded from a (5.25") floppy for each new screen, but you couldn't actually watch the graphics redraw.

    There were other games who exposed the process of rendering 2d vector graphics. I recall a few "Carmen Sandiego" clones for IBM PC or Apple that did this around 1982.

    Going back even further, Sierra had some games like "Mystery House" which did monochrome line art. IDR if there was floodfilling or not.

    1. Re:"Flood Filling" is a false memory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Games like "Wizard and the Princes" and "Time Zone" for the Apple II filled large areas with dithered colour - that's probably what was being referred to. Mystery House just had the white-on-black line drawings.

      You're right, though, the real slowness was a result of the floppy. Playing a cracked version with a speedup hack helped.

      The main problem with those pseudo-3D games like KQ, LL, SQ was that they completely sucked. SQ had a little bit of humour, but it was all so cheesy. Give me the worst Infocom game over any of those anyday.

    2. Re:"Flood Filling" is a false memory by Alcimedes · · Score: 1

      well, it's sort of false. The first Kings Quest was set up so that everything that was important came in last.

      it was like a hintbook for nothin' :)

    3. Re:"Flood Filling" is a false memory by Jon+Abbott · · Score: 1

      FWIW, the only time I've seen the phrase "flood filling", it was in a program called Apple Paint for the Apple ][. The function of it is what most graphics programs today call a "bucket fill". I'm not sure if this is the origin of the phrase, but that was the first and last time I've seen it used. :^)

    4. Re:"Flood Filling" is a false memory by Rothron+the+Wise · · Score: 2

      Flood filling predates bucket fill quite a bit and is pretty descriptive of how the algorithm works.

      This is back in the olden days where you could count the number of available colors on your hands,or if you were lucky, feet aswell.

      A color was a color. To have a "tolerance" like you have on todays fancy shmancy bucket fills was pointless. Floodfill would expand a colored area until it hit a pixel of a different color than the one you started filling. If you had a black outline you wanted to fill and there was a hole in it, the color would spill out, filling the entire rest of the screen. i.e. "flood".

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      A witty .sig proves nothing
    5. Re:"Flood Filling" is a false memory by Minna+Kirai · · Score: 1

      Your experience is non-representative of modern use. Google has seen "flood fill" 490,000 times, but only knows of 246,000 uses of "bucket fill".

      Flood Fill is the original description used by computer graphics programmers. "Bucket Fill" is a variation invented by Xerox or Apple to matchup with the icon on their GUI toolbar.

  42. Sierra Games still work! by sethadam1 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I cracked out a copy of good old Space Quest II about a year ago and loaded it up on my Athlon. It still works just fine. Sure, it's a little dated, and yes, those damned boxing robots are still friggin impossible, but it works.

    Funny thing is, I won the game in a few hours, but I remember it being weeks when I was a kid. Oh well. Now I have Leisure Luit Larry and Police Quest to track down!

    1. 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.

    2. Re:Sierra Games still work! by Minna+Kirai · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Funny? Not really. Faster, modern disk IO means no more spending 80% of game time waiting for screens to load.

      It also means you can save your game every 60 seconds, without waiting (swap game disk for save disk...wait wait wait... swap back), and with no concern for running out of space. That'll save you a lot of lost time when the game pointlessly kills you (carnivorous mushrooms, anyone?)

      PS. SQ2 had no mechanized pugilists. You're off by one sequel. For minigames, SQ1 had desert-racing and anti-Sarien gunslinging. I don't remeber any in SQ2, but the 3rd game (which changed to a totally different graphics engine) had AstroChicken and boxing. AstroChicken had catchy music and was rather fun. Two more sequels, and they were reduced to "You Sunk My Battlecruiser", one of the least entertaining things imaginable.

    3. Re:Sierra Games still work! by richie2000 · · Score: 2, Interesting
      Funny thing is, I won the game in a few hours, but I remember it being weeks when I was a kid.

      I've done the same thing with a few old C=64 games like Arkanoid (when I was a kid, that purple ball was impossible to get past, now I just whizzed by) and Paradroid. Since I played them now on the same compuer as I did then, the faster hardware theory doesn't hold. Any other thoughts on a reason? Are we just so wired for life in the fast lane that the old games aren't challenging anymore?

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      Money for nothing, pix for free
    4. Re:Sierra Games still work! by WWWWolf · · Score: 1
      I cracked out a copy of good old Space Quest II about a year ago and loaded it up on my Athlon.

      I hoped that would also apply to Sierra subsidiaries. Yesterday I had trouble getting Betrayal at Krondor (Dynamix, 1993) to run in Win98SE - not enough memory, and apparently the only way to get sound AND USB mouse support is to use Win dos box, raw dos boot won't do.

      Usually I wouldn't mind, but that was the first full-price PC game I ever got, and besides, it has retained its value most extraordinarily! =)

      Amazingly enough, the game runs just fine (just a little bit sluggishly and I didn't try the sound yet) in Bochs with DR-DOS 7.

    5. Re:Sierra Games still work! by The+Night+Watchman · · Score: 1

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

      I thought the boxing robots were from SQ3, The Pirates of Pestulon.

      Ahh, the memories... I remember endless hours of frustration resulting from that fine, fine game. Of course, my main problem with the whole series was that if you forgot to check the change pocket of your great-granduncle's Crimean War uniform three minutes after the introduction after sneaking through the seventh air duct on your right and prying open the wall with a toothpick, three Pringles, and a curling iron, you couldn't solve the game and had to load a game you saved three weeks ago.

      Or maybe that was Donkey Kong.

      No, I'm pretty sure that it was SQ. Maybe not that particular scenario, but one remarkably like it, on several occasions. Then again, I was about 11 when I played them, and somewhat less attentive to detail. Still, though, putting dead ends in a game like that is, IMNSHO, a mark of poor planning. The Myst series, on the other hand, was excellent in this regard. The solution to a puzzle may be excruciatingly obscure, with the only clue residing on the other side of the world, but it's there, and there's always a way to get back to it.

      Then again, I played SQ5 for the first time recently, and solved it in a matter of hours. So maybe I just got smarter. Or maybe the games just got easier.

      /* Steve */

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      "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of"-TMBG
    6. Re:Sierra Games still work! by cgenman · · Score: 1

      cgenman: Yup. Us oldtimers are really a force to be reckoned with,
      cgenman: with our years of training and lightning like refl....

      Fragged by 31337_phr34k.
      8th place with 0

    7. Re:Sierra Games still work! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There were bright red killer robots on the bottom floor of Vohaul's asteroid.
      DROP TRASH CAN
      PUT TOILET PAPER IN TRASH CAN
      LIGHT TOILET PAPER
      Oh, uhm, spoilers.

  43. Decimal point by cscx · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think you meant "0.25% of computers users"

  44. Sarien & Indiana Java by VoidEngineer · · Score: 1

    You may be thinking of either of these two projects:

    Sarien

    Indiana Java & the Network of Doom

  45. 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.''

  46. No... by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 2, Troll
    ...you're thinking of Mozilla.

    1. Re:No... by BitHive · · Score: 2, Insightful

      How is this a troll? I used Mozilla (mostly as a MUA) for a long time and switched to Opera 7 a few days ago. The difference is night & day! Mozilla feels clunky and bloated (gee, maybe it *is*), whilst Opera is nimble even with a much better skin engine and a more graphically rich interface!

    2. Re:No... by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 1
      How is this a troll?

      That's what I'm thinking!

      Mozilla -> Phoenix

      Mozilla -> Chimera

      New version comes out (fatter) and another branch comes out (thinner).

      Then again, screaming Mozilla is fat or vi is better will get you modded down without failure. Come to think of it though, yeah, vi IS better. :)

    3. Re:No... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, trolls tend to get modded down quite a bit. Especially the asinine and immature ones such as yourself. I really don't see how this could come as a suprise to you, unless you really are a mentally challenged cartoon character.

  47. Emulating a 8086 by spoco2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I see... the games were running too fast, so they submitted the site to slashdot so it would be slowed down to the point where it was just like playing them on the ol' 8086...

  48. Astronest by rkent · · Score: 0

    While I'm waiting for this Q42 "good old adventures" thingy to load, I just wanted to give a shout out to my former favorite online-DHTML-based game, Astronest.

    Astronest was actually a DHTML-driven database app a la "Solar Realms Elite." But it was SO much better because (not that I'm remembering SRE all that well at the moment...) instead of just trading a few units of food and buying 2 sorts of ships, you could actually *design your own fleets* and stock them up with weapons you'd "researched" by spending tons of turns poking around on the site.

    It was a ton of fun, until you got to the upper levels where you realized that thousands of teenagers play WAY more than you and it's mathematically impossible to design fleets better than *all* of them. I say "was," not only because it gets depressing at the high end, but also because it's no longer around; I visited that link for nostalgia's sake, and it throws off tons and tons of popups now; I wouldn't recommend visiting.

    Allegedly there's a Korean version out there somewhere that's still playable, but I already dedicated way too much of my life trying to win that game. But man it was fun.

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

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

    KERMUDGION.

  50. Trouble with tribbles... by VoidEngineer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ack! I've got Queks multiplying all over my webbrowser! Help!

  51. /.'ed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    My favorite part about playing old Sierra games was watching and waiting for the screen to finish flood filling.

    And now that the page has been /.'ed, we get to watch and wait all over again!

  52. Quicker, yea right. by Harik · · Score: 2, Funny
    My favorite part about playing old Sierra games was watching and waiting for the screen to finish flood filling. Thankfully these are much quicker.
    ... and to make yourself feel at home you directed the slashdot DDoS at them to slow their servers down! EVIL! Pure Evil!
  53. flash has been ported to Linux by SHEENmaster · · Score: 1

    well, the player is for x86 only. PowerPC forever!

    This site has the documentation to the SWF format. You can do flash programming manually, with a text editor.

    Making movies with a text editor may be a bit more involved :)

    --
    You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
    1. Re:flash has been ported to Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      apt-get install flashplayer

  54. SQ6 by mickcim · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm still waiting for Space Quest 7. Number six ended with a "To Be Continued..."

    1. Re:SQ6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      there won't be one. Mark Crowe and Al Lowe (the Two Guys from Andromeda) were fired by Sierra years ago while working on it and a new LSL game. Both projects were scrapped as soon as they left.

    2. Re:SQ6 by jolujogat · · Score: 2, Interesting

      There won't be an OFFICIAL space quest 7, but there is a fan-made game being made:
      http://www.sq7.org/

    3. Re:SQ6 by Beetle+B. · · Score: 2, Informative

      Sierra dropped all plans for SQ7 - read the full story at:

      www.wiw.org/~jess/roger.html

      --
      Beetle B.
  55. Page text / play link - from the "Play!" page by tbdean · · Score: 3, Informative

    BEFORE YOU START
    Please make sure you have read the HELP section on this site before you start playing. It explains all the controls, and you'll find lots of other valuable information there too.

    One more thing. Once playing, please avoid using foul language, it won't be appreciated by most people. Besides, why risk the chance of getting banned from the site for life? Don't forget, if you find someone to be annoying, you can always ignore that player by clicking on that character.

    READY?
    Well then, what are you waiting for?
    Click here to start!

    --
    tbdean
  56. Re:How sad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Sweet. I was worried for a minute there.

  57. Am I the only one... by sryx · · Score: 3, Funny

    who read the URL as www.GoodOlDadVentures.com

    Maybe thats how they are paying for it :P
    -Jason

  58. /.'ed by Iscariot_ · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anyone wanna post one of these games up here, site seems to have been slashdotted. I bet you'll get +5 so come on... why wait?!

  59. It ain't Flash by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You'd think a Linux geek would be smart enough to figure out it's Javascript.

    btw, since it's Javascript you can actually download the entire code. I downloaded it but I ain't gonna look at it since I don't want to ruin the guy's hard work.

  60. QuakeDHTML by Iscariot_ · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll pay 50 bucks to the first guy to get quake running in pure DHTML code.

    1. Re:QuakeDHTML by MarvinMouse · · Score: 1

      I put in $50CAN to the first person to get it functioning completely in DHTML.

      --
      ~ kjrose
    2. Re:QuakeDHTML by Guillaume+Ross · · Score: -1

      I put in 500$usd to the first getting it to run in Cobol, without shooting himself first.

    3. Re:QuakeDHTML by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Moneys to da guy who makes quak'e for my ffridgrator!

  61. Kewl... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...heh heh heh...Linux Mobile

    1. Re:Kewl... by darkjohnson · · Score: 1
  62. floodfill? by yanyan · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hmm... i don't remember having to wait for Space Quest or King's Quest to floodfill the screen. I DO remember though, that the drawing technique used in some of the earlier Quest games (in particular King's Quest 1), caused some objects to be drawn last, and it would be really obvious to the player. Imagine the whole scene completely drawn, and one or two last objects placed in. All of the time, these objects were movable and or get-able. For example, in KQ1 there's a boulder that you could move to get a knife under it. Because of the way that particular scene was rendered, it was a giveaway.

    In later games though, all objects were drawn simultaneously, so this minor "flaw" disappeared.

  63. "Flood Filling" did happen by flux4 · · Score: 1

    Perhaps your computer wasn't slow enough. I, with my incredible 8mhz Kaypro 2000+ laptop, did indeed watch space quest II render piece-by-piece on my 8-colour (actually 8 shades of blue) screen. I remember the wait times vividly, as you may imagine. The horizon would appear, then the trees, then the %#^$% maze that I was perpetually dying in, because I couldn't differentiate between two very similar shades of blue.

    Strangely enough, I enjoyed it immensely.

  64. does anyone else think it's kind of hypocritical by funkapus · · Score: 2, Interesting
    that in the source of the page, they have the following comment:
    Hi there,

    Nice to see you are interested in how we built Good Old Adventures. Feel free to discover that we didn't make it too easy for you, but why hack our code if a free singleplayer/standalone version will probably be released someday?

    when their whole project is basically a copy of other people's work? and they're posting this on an open source advocacy site?
  65. Re:Linux? I cunt bitch menstrual bloody tampon fag by Buck2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Did you use up all your linebreaks on the swastika?

    Throw some into your rant there. Break it up.

    That would be sweet.

    --

    As my father lik@(munch munch)... ....
  66. play old games... by Machine9 · · Score: 1

    ...and with the /. effect in motion it'll even be slow and laggy, like in the old days.

  67. cool, but by phagstrom · · Score: 1

    careful, combining these two objects may cause a rip in the space-time continuum. a tear in the very fabric of existence....or not!

    don't let word of Gary Owens come back to hunt you (unless you really want to, that is)

  68. hey guys by tq_at_sju · · Score: 1

    "i did not recognize f*ck the wizard in the asshole"

    come on you know you did it....

    --
    http://www.vanillaafro.com - take me seriously and I will shoot you
  69. Browser Requirements by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    Whoops!

    Your browser doesn't meet the system requirements:

    For Windows:
    • Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
    • Netscape 7 (or higher)
    • Mozilla 1.0 or higher (or similar redesigns of Mozilla, like Phoenix)

    For a MAC:
    • Netscape 7 (or higher)
    • Mozilla 1.0 or higher (or similar redesigns of Mozilla, like Phoenix)
    Other systems:
    • Well, we expect most systems to use a Mozilla browser to be able to run GOA
  70. if you count silver by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    god, I remember when VGA came out and I was like, How could I need 256 colors!? can I even see that many? I can only think of like 7 or 8 if you count silver.

    Ah, the red and grey faces of yesteryear, the time when you might be suprised and exclaim, " 3 disks!this Game is HUGE!" And be lost forever in the full screen oil-painting-like montages, with midi synths blaring thier midi horns with a midi choir all adding an epic quality to the graidiated spacescape before you.

    That was a golden age.

  71. Slash Crapped by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The Site is dead thanks to the inconsiderate slobs at Shitspot.

  72. Don't let the Alien kiss you! by Phigrin · · Score: 1

    Hey, I wonder if I could be that Alien running around giving users 'more than they bargained for', so that they'll have to restore at some REALLY early part of their chatting sessions... hehe.

  73. Things to do while you wait... by Scorchio · · Score: 1

    ...for the server load to die down :

    Why, go and play all those Infocom text adventures, java'd, through your browser, of course!

  74. sarien / other sierra game engine 'remakes' by gl4ss · · Score: 1

    could somebody fill me in with links to those?

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    world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
  75. Yet another SQ game: Lost Chapter (In SQ2/3 style) by Nanoda · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Wow, lookit all the links! I had no idea so many people had created so many SQ games! I'll add this one that was released in 2001, "Space Quest - The Lost Chapter" (Hope he can handle it).

    It's meant to fit in between SQ2 and SQ3, and has the interface totally down. I've played it about 1/4 the way through since last week, and so far my only complaints are the spelling errors every dozen messages, the (very) wordy cut scenes, and the way some exits to other screens are totally hidden. (Don't even get me started on the squid). There are hints and walkthroughs available though, and is very welcome to those who miss the text-interface games that made Sierra so popular.

  76. Screw space quest, I want Scorch! by riflemann · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I am still waiting for Scorched Earth to be updated so that it works in true online multiplayer mode.

    An online version of that game would absolutely rock! Please Wendell, do it!

    Yes there are clones out there, but none are quite so good.

    1. Re:Screw space quest, I want Scorch! by lordaych · · Score: 1
    2. Re:Screw space quest, I want Scorch! by entrippy · · Score: 1

      Check out Warheads and Moonbase Commander (a quick bit of google searching will find you links that I'm too lazy to provide).

      Moonbase Commander is SE'ish - but topdown and with a sort of base building element to it.

      Warheads *is* Scorched Earth, but played on planets with gravity (so you can swing a projectile such that it slingshots around a planet and whacks your opponent).

      Both have online multiplayer. Both are windows game with pretty low system req's

  77. In the meantime play a game... by sh0rtie · · Score: 2, Interesting


    Give Scott and his friends a visit over at Javascript Games, for more DHTML goodness

    Note:
    Opera isnt supported as it doesnt (at least it didnt used to) support the ability to re write the page after loading (elm.innerHTML) due to Opera's incomplete DOM model so any mildly adventurous DHTML will fail, hence Mozilla/NS6/ IE required.

    1. Re:In the meantime play a game... by iamsure · · Score: 1

      Thats not true any longer. Opera 7 fully supports innerHTML. I should know, my web-based game supports it now. :)

  78. l33t inf0z by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    From "Help" link:

    Good Old Adventures is built with an entirely new technology: it is called HTML which is short for HyperText Markup Language. It also uses some sort of programming language to make special things happen. This is called script, and we use the "javascript" variant. There is also a Visual Basic scripting language which looks like "DIM AAP=10".

    Hahahahahaha.
    Somebody set up us some sort of programming language!
  79. Starsphere by Idimmu+Xul · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd rather play Starsphere which does work in all browsers, and is a free online mmorpg where you control a planet and it's space fleet and go up against thousands of other players.

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  80. not really old games... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...as you can't type in any commands (and this feature is not planned) and you can pick any 'skin' (character) you want. Just an overglorified neo-graphical MUD interface without any of the goodies a mud or a decent graphical engine can provide. But /.'d nonetheless! Huzzah.

  81. SWF, not SVG by toriver · · Score: 1

    Nuff said.

  82. DrPhil plugin considered harmful by Maggot75 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Beware the DrPhil plugin! It claims to tell you things as they are, but it only tells you what you want to hear. And only if you're a middle aged woman, at that.

  83. Where's KQ??? by MarvinMouse · · Score: 1

    Where my good ol' King?

    I loved SQ, and PQ and LLL, but my first adventure gaming experience was with KQ. This GOA site for some reason forgot to include the king and his crew.

    Oh well... It's still uber cool. (Man, I miss those old games. If anyone knows a port of them or how to port them or if it's possible to port them to Linux, let me know. I'd really love to play them all again. Heck, I'd pay for it.)

    --
    ~ kjrose
  84. You Think You Hear Footsteps!!! by Limburgher · · Score: 1

    You leave a small circle of nose grease on the door. If you were Karl Malden, it could have gotten ugly.

    --

    You are not the customer.

    1. Re:You Think You Hear Footsteps!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      of course the originals were ported to practically any system possible

      check:

      http://sarien.sourceforge.net for AGI games like goodoldadventures.com

      http://freesci.linuxgames.com for the newer SCI variant

      and http://scummvm.sourceforge.net for lucasarts games

      greetz,

      Martin Kool
      PS I played police quest and day of the tentacle (talkie) on my PDA in the train :)

  85. sierra and lucasartsoriginals on linux / mac / pda by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    of course the originals were ported to practically any system possible

    check:

    http://sarien.sourceforge.net for AGI games like goodoldadventures.com

    http://freesci.linuxgames.com for the newer SCI variant

    and http://scummvm.sourceforge.net for lucasarts games

    greetz,

    Martin Kool

    PS I played police quest and day of the tentacle (talkie) on my PDA in the train :)

  86. I mistyped, it was SQ3! by sethadam1 · · Score: 1

    And I LOVED Astrochicken!

  87. Sierra incurred my wraith after KQ4. by Gannoc · · Score: 2, Interesting


    You get cupids bow and 2 arrows early on in the game. You can shoot a pegasus? to make him fall in love with you. At any time, you could shoot the other arrow and it would fly across the screen, etc.

    THE LAST PART IN THE GAME, the evil queen or whatever, required the 2nd arrow. Literally, the last two words you typed were "Shoot queen." If you shot the arrow 5 hours ago... tough luck, you were dead.

    Weeee, fun.

    1. Re:Sierra incurred my wraith after KQ4. by entrippy · · Score: 1

      Unicorn, I think.

      And yes, Sierra were absolute sods when it came to allowing you to screw your game up early on and then requiring you to retrace your steps much later.

      Thus the Sierra "save game every ten minutes and never, ever, overwrite your saves" play policy.

      Then again, Infocom weren't much better - especially HHGTTG, which was the worst offender *ever* in this regard.

  88. lol @ the slashdot effect :D by pavese · · Score: 0

    http://www.nedstatbasic.net/s?tab=1&link=1&id=2106 137

    4 februari 2003 129
    5 februari 2003 101
    6 februari 2003 131
    7 februari 2003 25745
    Totaal 28344

  89. Not working in Mozilla on Debian GNU/Linux by taleman · · Score: 1

    Tried it, seems it does not work properly using Mozilla 1.0 on Debian GNU/Linux. Pity.

  90. Re:Linux? I cunt bitch menstrual bloody tampon fag by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    Cat on Smack Story and THE LONG GOAT

    So I came home from work the other day to discover my cat mittens laying on the floor. His breathing was very shallow and his eyes were very glassy. When I approached him I noticed a belt tied around his arm and both a syringe and a bent spoon laying beside him. Despite all his promises to the contrary, my beloved Mittens has started shooting up smack again!

    Fortunately the paramedics showed up quickly and gave him some naloxone which saved him. Unfortunately the problem of my cat being addicted to heroin still remains. Last week he sold my stereo and this weekend Mittens offered to perform oral sex on me in exchange for a hit.

    I love my cat and want to see him off this horrible drug. Unfortunately he won't stop on his own! Mittens says he can quit anytime he wants to and becomes combative when I force the issue. I'm tired of seeing him throw his life away. He could've been a great mouser, one of the best before he got hooked.

    Can anyone recommend a way to get my cat off heroin? It would be much appreciated.

    Also, this must be said; I dont want to fuck my poor cat mittens. I love him dearly. IF he offered oral sex as a hit, and I would never compromise the sanctity and trust of our brotherly (non gay, non sexual) relationship! I thank youall for your genuine concern for the safety of my genitals with regard to animal contact with sandpapery cat tongues, I assure your that fornicating with animals is not on the repitoire!

    Please, if you know how to help poor mittens get off the smack, please, for the love of god help. Its mittens darkest time, and I dont want this to turn out like that beefy rugby guy who died on junk in Trainspotting. I dont want me or mittens to swim in toilets either. Please, help!!

    I have a better title for this STORY!!! It should be:

    Rhode Apple: Taco is switching to BUTT SEX!


    Taco, I want you to fuck me in the ass please. I am dying to be anally accosted. I want to be ravaged like hog. I want you to dress like a farmer and make me oink like a pig. I want an ass reaming like no other. Taco, I haven't had this kind of lust for you since the crazy college days. We used to butt fuck each other in the stalls. You always told me not to flush and preferred using my feces as apposed to real lubricant. I remember your chocolaty member, your manhood, draped in my feces. Man, Robbie, I remember. I was day dreaming, escaping into a nether world where we used to fornicate, and live in fornicatory bliss. You used to like to keep your tubes socks on to enhance they gay look. We were so flitty and light on out feet. I am so very confused these days. I have difficulty conceptualizing the time that was then in contrast to now. I mean, first you were a raging homosexual, now you deprecate me in favor of this "woman." I know that bitch is a transvestite. You are closeting your homosexuality and denying your roots in my ass!

    I am destabilizing. The world is going dark to me. I have scintillating threads of motley thoughts, my ability to control my self evanesces away! I have only an adamantine desire to see your balloon knot once again, and to have you ravage mine! I see a world of GOATS. A goat fucking extravaganza. I invoke the ANUS of DOOM! I hate Taco.

    SON of the GOAT, HUGE ASS WIDENER, This is a massive, massive ass attack from the Minister of Goat, Ayatollah man-meat.
    Dilated Meat Pie. Most suppressed people really like seeing this. It gives them new masturbatory fodder.
    Two cucumbers, better than one. This is to show that the giver is really smaller than what is needed to fill GOATSE man. He east Cheerioatse brand O's
    A Disney product right where it belongs. Up a goat's ass. Death to Mike Eisner, the butt buddy of Commander Tak0.
    Raw and dilated man-pussy. Put back the trouser snake, Tako. You dick is way too small for this man's ass.
    A Prolapsed rectum is sure to whet even the most jaded flaming fuck's appetite. Tak0, your penis is regrettably way too small, even for your "Fiancée's" unfettered anus. She doesn't want to dirty her ass with the likes of your pathetic member.
    GOAT KORAN
    Classic HIT ME IN THE SHITTER BABY, UNGH HUH
    Classic Oh yeah, in the shitter some more, in the shitter.
    Classic More ass stretching goodness.
    Female Goater My pussy is too small for this APPLE.
    Goatse Grandpas - GRANPA GOAT S3X0R5
    Son of a Goat - Holy fucking son of a goat. Kind of looks like Tako from behind, but to be sure I'd have to ask CowGryl Kneel
    1 Oh, pardon me sir, would you happen to have any ANAL LUBE?
    2 UNGH FART, pssssbt, ungh, tweeep, squeaaaaaak ungh
    3 PFFFFFFFFFFT AHH pffft
    4 FOOOOOOOOOOOOF blud dribble dribble
    Prime Number Shitting Goatse Man See The Prime numbers flow like the river SHIT
    Goatse Returns! Fuck yeah, the goat man is a coming back to Trollaxor
    I summon the powers of HUGE GAPING ASS!
    1 You Will Love to Goatse on all the things of Internet.
    2 Will Search and initiate to new members, and you will show the way to the light (www.goatse.es.org)
    3 When they return of to see our God Goatse, you mock of them.
    4 To fuck, to fuck that are shocked the planets!

    * g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x *
    gcccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc cg
    oc/ccccc\ccccccccccccc\cccccccccccc/cccc\ccccc cco
    a|ccccccc|ccccccccccccc\cccccccccc|cccccc|ccc ccca
    t|ccccccc`.ccccccccccccc|ccccccccc|ccccccc:c cccct
    s`cccccccc|ccccccccccccc|cccccccc\|ccccccc| cccccs
    ec\ccccccc|c/ccccccc/cc\\\ccc--__c\\cccccc c:cccce
    xcc\cccccc\/ccc_--~~cccccccccc~--__|c\ccc cc|ccccx
    *ccc\cccccc\_-~cccccccccccccccccccc~-_\c ccc|cccc*
    gcccc\_ccccc\cccccccc_.--------.______\ |ccc|ccccg
    occcccc\ccccc\______//c_c___c_c(_(__>c c\ccc|ccc c
    accccccc\ccc.ccCc___)cc______c(_(____>cc|cc/ccc c
    tccccccc/\c|cccCc____)/cccccc\c(_____>cc|_/cccc c
    scccccc/c/\|cccC_____)c_Taco_|cc(___>ccc/cc\ccc c
    eccccc|ccc(ccc_C_____)\_ccccc/cc//c_/c/ccccc\cc ce
    xccccc|cccc\cc|__ccc\\_________//c(__/ccccccc| ccx
    *cccc|c\cccc\____)ccc`----ccc--'ccccccccccccc |cc*
    gcccc|cc\_cccccccccc___\ccccccc/_cccccccccc_ /c|cg
    occc|cccccccccccccc/cccc|ccccc|cc\ccccccccc ccc|co
    accc|ccccccccccccc|cccc/ccccccc\cc\ccccccc cccc|ca
    tccc|cccccccccc/c/cccc|ccccccccc|cc\ccccc cccccc|t
    sccc|ccccccccc/c/cccccc\__/\___/cccc|ccc ccccccc|s
    ecc|ccccccccccc/cccccccc|cccc|ccccccc|c cccccccc|e
    xcc|cccccccccc|ccccccccc|cccc|ccccccc| ccccccccc|x
    * g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x *


    Our Goatse Prayer
    Llegaré a ser petador, el mejor que habrá jamás.
    Mi causa es ser reventador, tras mi gran petada anal.
    Petaré cualquier animal llegaré a partirlo en dos.
    Al fin podré agujerear el culo de Goatsemon. (Es Goatsemon)
    Petalos todos. Es mi destino, mi misión. (Es Goatsemon)
    Tú eres mi amigo fiel, pero deja ya mi esfinter. (Es Goatsemon)
    Petalos todos. Seremos mejor al fin.
    Te peto yo, y tú a mí Goatsemon.
    Hazte con todos. Goatsemon..

    So I came home from work the other day to discover my cat laying on the floor. His breathing was very shallow and his eyes were very glassy. When I approached him I noticed a belt tied around his arm and both a syringe and a bent spoon laying beside him. Despite all his promises to the contrary, my beloved Mittens has started shooting up smack again!

    Fortunately the paramedics showed up quickly and gave him some naloxone which saved him. Unfortunately the problem of my cat being addicted to heroin still remains. Last week he sold my stereo and this weekend Mittens offered to perform oral sex on me in exchange for a hit.

    I love my cat and want to see him off this horrible drug. Unfortunately he won't stop on his own! Mittens says he can quit anytime he wants to and becomes combative when I force the issue. I'm tired of seeing him throw his life away. He could've been a great mouser, one of the best before he got hooked.

    Can anyone recommend a way to get my cat off heroin? It would be much appreciated.

  91. test before you post by SHEENmaster · · Score: 1

    /home/sheenmaster/# apt-get install flashplayer Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package flashplayer /home/sheenmaster/#

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  92. Another online game worth checking out by nufsaid · · Score: 1

    Not quite on topic, but the game Wyvern is well worth checking out. It is a massively multiplayer online game similar to Gauntlet in some respects. It runs under java, so it tends to be pretty platform friendly.

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    Is this the promised end? Or image of that horror? KING LEAR
    1. Re:Another online game worth checking out by mono_indy · · Score: 1

      I think this would be great if there were a lot more games like this online. I really, really want to see DOOM online with multiplayer. I know the Infocom games are available online which was posted at serious fix. This, I thought was really cool.

      If anyone finds the DOOM online game ... please let us know.

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