It's in GLUL not in z-machine (strictly speaking this
is an over-simplification). You'll need a glul
interpreter such as Andrew Plotkin's
glulxe
to play it. I had to change a couple things to
compile one of glulxe's supporting libraries - email me
if you'd like a hand with this.
Why not use separate keyboard and controller?
on
New Cube controller
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Maybe I'm being stupid, but for a game needing
both keyboard and game-controller style input,
why don't you just use a keyboard and a game
controller? You could have a PS/2 keyboard
socket on the back of your console, or an
over-priced splitter thing that you plugged one
into. Is this thing any easier to use than a
keyboard in front of you and a controller in
your hands? When you want to type you drop the
controller in front of the keyboard and bring
your hands over and either side of it. It's
right there if you need it quickly. And you
can use your own favorite keyboard and
controller instead of having them tied together.
Am I missing something?
FWIW, this happened to my grandfather's machine too. Apparently it's a problem with Award BIOSes from a period in 1994-95 and there's a fix on their Web site; it's a thing that runs on boot and does some magic, presumably more or less what your ASM program would be doing.
The problem I had with this quiz was that a lot of the questions assume American units and places. For example, I don't have a really good mental model of what weight a pound is, I don't know where Mississippi or Missouri are, and I've only heard of the Golden Gate bridge - I've never seen it.
I don't think the American units and places are really a problem; the point isn't to be close, it's to be able to predict how close you can be. That's why you're asked for a 90% confidence range; if your range for the length of the Mississippi-Missouri river is 50 to 1 000 000 miles, then fair enough. Then at the end, if either all ten were well within your ranges or half of them were way outside, you know you're not very good at knowing how good your estimates are. Maybe it's misleading that the previous poster referred to "back-of-the-envelope calculations", because that's not really what it's about; if you don't have a clue, you're allowed to make a sensible guess. FWIW, I'm English and your set of questions wouldn't be any easier for me; of Bentley's, seven were within my ranges, which is OK, I guess, although there was one that I got wrong by a couple of orders of magnitude.
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... now that they don't have Major League Baseball any more.
(sorry Ichiro fans)
It's in GLUL not in z-machine (strictly speaking this is an over-simplification). You'll need a glul interpreter such as Andrew Plotkin's glulxe to play it. I had to change a couple things to compile one of glulxe's supporting libraries - email me if you'd like a hand with this.
Maybe I'm being stupid, but for a game needing both keyboard and game-controller style input, why don't you just use a keyboard and a game controller? You could have a PS/2 keyboard socket on the back of your console, or an over-priced splitter thing that you plugged one into. Is this thing any easier to use than a keyboard in front of you and a controller in your hands? When you want to type you drop the controller in front of the keyboard and bring your hands over and either side of it. It's right there if you need it quickly. And you can use your own favorite keyboard and controller instead of having them tied together. Am I missing something?
Richard