Boot To Zork

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Posted by Unknown on Monday September 23, 2013 @10:10PM from the you-have-been-eaten-by-a-grue dept.

Seemingly to inflict more suffering upon himself, Matthew Garrett (lord of getting things to boot using EFI) decided that booting directly into Zork would be cool. Quoting his weblog entry: "So, Frotz seemed like the natural choice when this happened. But despite having a set of functionality that makes it look much more like an OS than a boot environment, UEFI doesn't actually expose a standard C library. The EFI Application Development Kit solves this particular design decision. Porting Frotz ended up involving far more fixing up of Frotz bugs that tripped up -Werror than anything else. One note, though - make sure you include DevShell in the list of required packages at build time, otherwise file i/o will mysteriously fail." Grab the code, assuming you have a copy of Zork (or any other Z-machine game, as long as you name it ZORK1.DAT, I think).

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Not the grue! by dreamchaser · 2013-09-23 22:14 · Score: 5, Funny

It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
1. Re:Not the grue! by RivenAleem · 2013-09-23 22:47 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Grue Screen of Death
2. Re:Not the grue! by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-24 00:26 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  You are likely to be eaten by a GRUB.
3. Re:Not the grue! by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-24 02:50 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  ===ZorkOS v.1.0===
  You are in a filesystem of twisty symbolic links:#>_
Re:Text based adventure as a boot option? by Joce640k · 2013-09-23 23:06 · Score: 4, Funny

Someone do this, I loved playing the text-based adventure games as a kid. Someone should bring these back.
If only there was a way to search for things like that on the Internet...

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Re:Question by mwvdlee · 2013-09-23 23:17 · Score: 5, Funny

Because he can.
And, more importantly, because you can't.

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Re:Text based adventure as a boot option? by hawkinspeter · 2013-09-23 23:29 · Score: 4, Funny

If you type 'bing' into the google, you get taken to a site that can search for things like that.

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Transcript by jabberw0k · 2013-09-23 23:59 · Score: 5, Funny

> BOOT Your way is blocked by a tall, bald pirate. > KILL PIRATE With what, your bare hands? > INVENTORY You have: One hard disk drive, /dev/hda One CDROM drive, /dev/cd0 One USB drive, /dev/sda A rather large magnet A DVD containing LinuxMint > EXAMINE HARD DRIVE The disk appears to contain a bootable copy of Windows 8. > ATTACK PIRATE WITH MAGNET The pirate parries, and your magnet hits the hard disk drive. READ ERROR, SECTOR 0 >
1. Re:Transcript by sandman_eh · 2013-09-24 00:52 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Well the pirate doesn't have the usual avian on his shoulder, so it not a PARROTY ERROR
  
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Re:Anyone else feel like they're having a stroke? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-09-24 00:24 · Score: 3, Funny

You RTFA and paid the price. Now get out.
Re:Anyone else feel like they're having a stroke? by Lumpy · 2013-09-24 02:06 · Score: 4, Funny

And he was eaten by a Grue.

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