Do you grok Xyzzy?
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FOOI used to have the FORTRAN sources for that on microfiche!
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I had the source on green stripy paper. A friend and I wrote a customised version of it (in FORTRAN 4) to run on our college computer (a Pr1me 300B) with our own messages and map. Nobody liked it much so we gave up and I wrote a version of the early Star Trek type game instead which proved immensely popular - so much so that we were instructed to restrict access to it as all terminals were permanently occupied with students playing it.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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No, I don't grok it. Don't care to grok it either.
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Another answer that proves how many hours I have spent playing TOCC (The Original Colossal Cave)... Plugh!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Youngin! :laugh:
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Nothing Happens. Darn it! I have just revealed my age!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I stumbled upon this while searching for other obscurities and thought it was just obscure enough to obscure this message board for a while. :laugh: Xyzzy (computing) - Wikipedia[^] Hint: It's related to a very famous video computer game (not much video in this one).
Extra credit for using both "grok" and "xyzzy" in a sentence. Mr. Peabody apparently fired up the Wayback Machine for you! :) Fun game, back in the day. I spent countless hours lost in those twisty little passages. As a result, xyzzy.txt remains one of my go-to names for a temporary/junk file.
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FEE
FIE
FOE
FOOI used to have the FORTRAN sources for that on microfiche!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
OriginalGriff wrote:
to have the FORTRAN sources for that on microfiche!
It might take you the rest of the year to top that statement! :laugh: :laugh:
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Extra credit for using both "grok" and "xyzzy" in a sentence. Mr. Peabody apparently fired up the Wayback Machine for you! :) Fun game, back in the day. I spent countless hours lost in those twisty little passages. As a result, xyzzy.txt remains one of my go-to names for a temporary/junk file.
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I stumbled upon this while searching for other obscurities and thought it was just obscure enough to obscure this message board for a while. :laugh: Xyzzy (computing) - Wikipedia[^] Hint: It's related to a very famous video computer game (not much video in this one).
Here, have at it[^]! :) /ravi
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OriginalGriff wrote:
to have the FORTRAN sources for that on microfiche!
It might take you the rest of the year to top that statement! :laugh: :laugh:
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
It does date one slightly, doesn't it? :laugh:
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Here, have at it[^]! :) /ravi
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