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[ FAIL-SAFE

-- By Jon Ingold © 2000

With thanks to Vincent Lynch, Tom Lees, John Bichard.

[Please press SPACE to boot up.]

Bzzt. Crackle.
*Static*

"...hello? Hello? Can... me? .. Anyone! Hel.... Need.. hello?"

Bleep - PLEASE WAIT - Locating/Tuning signal...

..

".. help. Repeat, can anybody hear me? Can you hear me? Hello.."

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Score: 0 | Moves: 0

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Not too difficult to program. It's written in Java, uses apache.org HttpClient to log in, fetch the forum HTML pages, then does some rexexp searches to find the necessary info from these. Then uses a Z-Machine class ripped from Zinc ( zinc-if.sourceforge.net ) to run the game and posts the response again using HttpClient.

The idea of running text adventure games on the forums was actually Jake's.

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I might try to leave it on for the night running a game (in a new thread) if I manage to fix some issues. Any requests?

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I'd like either Zork or the Hitchhikers Guide game... both sort of standard classics I know, but hey :P I've never played either.

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ZORK I: The Great Underground Empire

Copyright © 1981, 1982, 1983 Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved.

ZORK is a registered trademark of Infocom, Inc.

Revision 88 / Serial number 840726

West of House

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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Location: West of House | Score: 0 | Moves: 0

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null> north

North of House

You are facing the north side of a white house. There is no door here, and all the windows are boarded up. To the north a narrow path winds through the trees.

>

Location: North of House | Score: 0 | Moves: 1

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ZORK I: The Great Underground Empire

Copyright © 1981, 1982, 1983 Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved.

ZORK is a registered trademark of Infocom, Inc.

Revision 88 / Serial number 840726

West of House

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.

There is a small mailbox here.

>

Location: West of House | Score: 0 | Moves: 0

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north

If it prints usernames now, I'm going to post a new thread and leave it on... It will probably crash, but what the hell.

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Erkki> north

North of House

You are facing the north side of a white house. There is no door here, and all the windows are boarded up. To the north a narrow path winds through the trees.

>

Location: North of House | Score: 0 | Moves: 1

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