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New Hitchhiker's Episodes Available Online
Michael Sheldon writes "The BBC is now offering the first of the new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio episodes as either Real or WMP audio streams. Meaning listeners abroad can now hear the new series, which started playing on UK radio last Tuesday."
FYI, Primary and Secondary Phase's are available from KCRW in Real format:
http://kcrw.org/show/hg
Look you don't have to wait for the BBC put *PUT THEM ONLINE* to listen from abroad. You can listen to Radio 4 *LIVE* via streaming (HHGTTG is on Tuesdays at 6pm UK time)... this story relates to the BBC's "Listen Again" feature which allows to to catch it if you miss it.
I for one am really excited that HG2G has finally made its way back to radio. And on top of that, I can listen to it hassle-free (not as in beer) and free (as in beer) of charge over the internet. I wish listening to American proprietary radio stations was always this easy.
Don't sweat the petty things. Don't pet the sweaty things. --Stephen J. Simmons
They were working on broadcasting it on the Sub Ether Waveband but they didn't have the necessary rights.
"The dew has clearly fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning"
Share and enjoy, and why don't you stick your head in a pig ;)
I've been using the shareware version of NetTransport, which seems to work quite nicely - give it the .ram or .asx URL, wait half an hour, and it'll save the 26MB of .rm or .asf data.
So i'm guessing they've never heard of mplayer -dumpstream before then.
Ah well, never mind eh.
Dear moderators,
The above post actually comes just after my post on the subject, not before. 'Stephendl' obviously copied mine, only for it to be swept back through an eddy in the space-time continuum. Please moderate accordingly.
(Apologies!)
Tedious Bloggy Stuff - hooray?
Experience with OGG? They haven't touched it for nearly two years!
;)
Personally I'm disappointed they didn't also offer it in FLAC, PCM, DTS, SDDS and Dolby Digital! Give it a rest, stop whining, and be happy that they made it available in the first place. It seems people get moderated up just for whinging about OGG. And no, I'm not new here
Hi there! I'm Eddy, your shipboard computer!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
The back end's a C++ multi-threaded ZMachine running as a web server extension (can be compiled either as an Apache module or an ISAPI DLL).
As well as sending the user's input and the game's output back and forth as XML, it also watches the ZMachine's internal state to send the location, score, number of moves, inventory etc.
It has extra "knowledge" about the HHG game's internals (which is how it can handle the bedroom being dark, house being knocked down etc). This was hard-coded in the release that the BBC are running (due to time constraints - we had to ship on Sep 21st!), but newer builds have an external config file which can let the game twiddle the XML output accordingly, so in theory it could run any of the Infocom adventures.
Shim's Flash client grabs the XML, pulls up Rod's artwork, displays the inventory and handles the text i/o history.
Most of the team is on vacation at the moment (I'm posting in the naive hope that it'll mean less email waiting for me when I get back ;-), but there'll be full spec released in due course.
It's pretty cool, too
Thanks ... glad you like it!
Sean.