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Post by Ozzatron on Sept 8, 2011 6:16:46 GMT -5
No. It's not. I want you to figure it out.
Plow can also be spelled plough, I think.
Signature.
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Post by scud47 on Sept 8, 2011 16:04:41 GMT -5
You mean the magic command teleport in the text adventure 'Adventure'? I forget where it takes you, but I know the other one is 'xyzzy'.
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Post by moogleman09 on Sept 8, 2011 16:53:00 GMT -5
Plow can also be spelled plough, I think. That is the british spelling.
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Post by Ozzatron on Sept 8, 2011 17:57:12 GMT -5
Did you have to look that up? There's a third one too, "plover", but that's a real word.
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Post by scud47 on Sept 8, 2011 18:39:06 GMT -5
Nope: I once had a book by Donald Knuth that contained the source code of Adventure, in C. Actually, the game scans only the first five letters, so it's really 'plove'.
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Post by catplanetcatplanet on Sept 8, 2011 19:04:03 GMT -5
Plover is a shorebird (I would know ). Pronounced plover like the word plush, not plowver.
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Post by scud47 on Sept 8, 2011 19:10:59 GMT -5
Plover like Plush? I don't understand...
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Post by catplanetcatplanet on Sept 8, 2011 19:13:57 GMT -5
The plu- sound is the same. Kinda like 'uh'.
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Post by Ozzatron on Sept 8, 2011 19:32:01 GMT -5
Yeah, I know. That's the weird thing. It's because the original game was made in F77 on some ancient computer system that had very quirky data storage: the limit was five bytes. Thus, all the commands in ADVENT were 5 letters or less.
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Post by scud47 on Sept 8, 2011 19:33:53 GMT -5
You mean ADVEN, right?
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Post by Ozzatron on Sept 9, 2011 0:13:38 GMT -5
No, the game was called ADVENT. Again for whatever stupid reason. It wasn't subject to the 5-byte limit for a single reading, so they made it six letters... instead of nine? It isn't that big of a difference...
Either way, have you ever played that or beaten it?
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Post by scud47 on Sept 9, 2011 7:21:34 GMT -5
No, just read the source code.
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Post by Ozzatron on Sept 9, 2011 11:35:23 GMT -5
Then compile that source code and play it.
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Post by scud47 on Sept 9, 2011 13:26:51 GMT -5
I'm supposed to remember 50-100 pages of C?
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Post by Ozzatron on Sept 9, 2011 18:23:47 GMT -5
You know there's actually like a dozen versions of the game, each with different extensions on Will Crowther's original. There's the "finished official" version, and there's a ton of things that expand off of that. For whatever reason, there's also things that expand off of the original, rather than the finished one.
You could make some modifications yourself, too.
If you still have the book.
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