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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.

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  1. 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 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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    3. 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?
    4. 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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    5. 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.

  2. 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 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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    2. 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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  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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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  6. 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.

  7. 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.

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    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.

  8. 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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  9. 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 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.

  10. 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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  11. /.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.

  12. 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!

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

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

  14. 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!

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  15. 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

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

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

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  17. 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.