Classic Browser Adventuring Goes Open Source

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Classic Browser Adventuring Goes Open Source

Posted by simoniker on Thursday February 5, 2004 @04:47AM from the rock-your-kings-quest-some-more dept.

Conrad Sheldon writes "Just a few days after the one year anniversary of its launch, 'adventure gaming engine in a browser' Good Old Adventures has gone open source. This means that you can now create your very own browser-running Sierra On-Line format AGI games, and incorporate them into your web site - it works with the alternative SCI-formatted games as well. With some more work on the open source code by developers, perhaps it will even support SCUMM and other engines some day. The possibilities are virtually endless. Let the adventures begin..." We previously featured this project earlier last year, and it should be noted the source "does not come with the multiplayer libraries, but it is the fully playable... singleplayer version of what is online here."

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This reminds me... by scumbucket · 2004-02-05 04:50 · Score: 4, 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 mahdi13 · 2004-02-05 05:16 · Score: 1
  
  That's cool
  Reminds me of the first time I played Zork...the system admin at the time snuck it into the database system.
  
  You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.
  
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AGI? by Lord+Graga · 2004-02-05 04:56 · Score: 0

Great, it's old news, but why not play them on Gameboy Advance instead? :)
1. Re:AGI? by mahdi13 · 2004-02-05 06:19 · Score: 1
  
  Great, it's old news, but why not play them on Gameboy Advance instead? :)
  Because you can't type use knife on troll into a GBA =P
  
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2. Re:AGI? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-05 07:10 · Score: 0
  
  Its called "previous slashdot article." ... Read it. I'm not even gonna post a link, you should look for it for yourself. :P
3. Re:AGI? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-05 08:11 · Score: 0
  
  Since you were so discriptive with "Previous Slashdot Article", here's the one you are talking about
  Only on Slashdot 4 days is considered "old"
  
  Nice work on their part too, but they are for Sierra games...you still can't use nasty knife on troll with your GBA...but you CAN, go to the Land of the Lounge Lizards!
No KQ1? by ArcticPuppy · 2004-02-05 05:07 · Score: 3, Interesting

Thanks to Kings Quest I was way ahead of my class in english lessons. I remember sitting for hours with a norwegian-english dictionary trying out different combinations of look and get .
Funny you should mention it... by Txiasaeia · 2004-02-05 05:21 · Score: 1

but Tierra Entertainment have re-released versions of KQ1 and KQ2 with a graphical interface and VGA graphics. Enjoy!

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Oooooh the Fun by lake2112 · 2004-02-05 05:27 · Score: 5, Funny

You are standing in an open field. You can see a solitary tree with a solitary apples hanging from it. > Get Apple Command not recognized >Take Apple Command not recognized >Pick Apple You take the red, tasty apple from the tree. > Eat Apple The apple is poisoned you are dead. You will automatically be transported to a point you were at hours ago.
1. Re:Oooooh the Fun by Lightwarrior · 2004-02-05 07:38 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  The moral of the story is, of course, to never trust Apple. (ha?)
  
  -lw
  
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You can't get ye flask! by American+AC+in+Paris · 2004-02-05 07:51 · Score: 3, Funny

Obvious exits are NORTH, SOUTH, and DENNIS.
What wouldst thou deau?
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1. Re:You can't get ye flask! by Overdrive_SS · 2004-02-05 08:32 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  >Get ye flask
  
  Ye can not get ye flask.
  
  And all you can do is sit there wondering why in the world ye can not get ye flask, because the game surely isn't going to tell you.
2. Re:You can't get ye flask! by srvivn21 · 2004-02-06 09:22 · Score: 1
  
  Have you tried "getting ye flask" three times? Fun for the whole family.
doesn't work in mozilla 1.6 by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-05 08:23 · Score: 2, Informative

I get 10 javascript warnings and two syntax errors!!
Great now all they need is... by memco · 2004-02-05 08:31 · Score: 0, Flamebait

People to play the game, something to do, support for Safari, and some NPCs.

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The Black Cauldron. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-05 09:16 · Score: 0

Whoa. That's a picture of The Black Cauldron! I bought that game when it first came out... except I don't think you could type anything -- you just had the function keys for actions, looking, etc. Ahh, the good ol' days.

Stupid Disney didn't even sell that film until about 14 years too late. Jackasses.
Use it for 404 by Beolach · 2004-02-05 09:42 · Score: 4, Informative

My favorite 404 Page Not Found error is a online PHP version of Zork.

More games as 404 errors here.

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1. Re:Use it for 404 by enrico_suave · 2004-02-06 05:46 · Score: 1
  
  great links, thanks... made my day!
  
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Good Old Adventures by TurnerK12 · 2004-02-05 11:09 · Score: 2, Informative

I remember when this first came out last February. Everyone was trying to get in, but I guess we overloaded the server. I finally got a chance to try it out though. It was like a glorified chat room. There wasn't much point to walking around since you couldn't do anything in the rooms. An inventory system, and a few quests would of been nice. It had a lot of potential though. Too bad it didn't last. Perhaps somebody will do something great with the source code.
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