> Denied the use of a real London Underground station and tunnels,
> designer David Myerscough-Jones created his own highly convincing replica.
> Indeed a letter of complaint was apparently later received from London Underground
> alleging that filming had taken place on their property without permission
> - a true testament to the merits of Myerscough-Jones's work...
Plumb in an air-to-water heat pump. Instead of contributing to global warming by just tossing the exhaust heat outside the building, you're recycling the PC's unwanted waste.
If your office was once residential, it might even be easier to fit than air-con, and the business should end up paying less for the energy.
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Good technology is not enough, it has to fill a hole in the marketplace.
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.
Seconded. I remember Douglas becoming utterly exasperated when the subject came up at TDV - he had no idea where the damn thing came from - it just turned up one day on the cover of the US editions.
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you are wrong due to the Dunning-Kruger effect
Not to be confused with the Freddy Dunning–Krueger Effect: Unkilled and Unaware of It.
... at least there's now a chance of someone fixing that bloody Caps Lock delay
> Denied the use of a real London Underground station and tunnels, ...
... on a 1968 Dr. Who episode ;-)
> designer David Myerscough-Jones created his own highly convincing replica.
> Indeed a letter of complaint was apparently later received from London Underground
> alleging that filming had taken place on their property without permission
> - a true testament to the merits of Myerscough-Jones's work
Plumb in an air-to-water heat pump. Instead of contributing to global warming by just tossing the exhaust heat outside the building, you're recycling the PC's unwanted waste.
If your office was once residential, it might even be easier to fit than air-con, and the business should end up paying less for the energy.
Good technology is not enough, it has to fill a hole in the marketplace.
Not having a dumb name helps, too.
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.
Seconded. I remember Douglas becoming utterly exasperated when the subject came up at TDV - he had no idea where the damn thing came from - it just turned up one day on the cover of the US editions.