[s0] Zork ababababa

20 November 2025 17:48
chalcedony_starlings: A square pixel face from a Minecraft skin, with color variation mimicking a feathery texture. It's split in half vertically: the left side is off-white with a brown eye, and the right side is off-black with a green eye. There's dots to the far left and right. (ditherian)

Despite my cringing at some of the corpospeak, Microsoft's blog post on officially putting out Zork Trilogy source MIT-licensed seems to me like a neat development. Might be interesting to compare to the existing abandonware repos, too. *peers lightly in [personal profile] xyzzysqrl's direction as seems semi-obligatory*

Also interesting to read this paragraph in the first repo's README: “In general, Infocom games were created by taking previous Infocom source code, copying the directory, and making changes until the game worked the way the current Implementor needed. Structure, therefore, tended to follow from game to game and may or may not accurately reflect the actual function of the code.”

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[s0] Unusual issue in Colorful Stage today

22 September 2023 14:35
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Unusual stuff today in the News → Issues section in Colorful Stage (aka Project Sekai EN):

The following issue is currently affecting the game.

Issue Details

Some users with the title “saki Fan” cannot play the show.
This issue has been resolved.

Firstly, notably more textual issues than usual. There's the missing capital letter. “play the show”, for those not aware of the game, likely refers to starting the primary rhythm game mode, but “play shows” would be more grammatical in English.

Secondly… what bug could be causing that symptom? That's an interesting one. It reminds me of what was going on with the timer screwups a while back that arrived in that one event in EN one year after they supposedly showed up in JP, signaling something ambiguous but interesting about their content delivery mechanics.

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[(−) s0] dw-dev: API wishlist

14 October 2017 06:36
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Glaaah we don't have time to process this and it's already four days later! Indirectly via [personal profile] siderea: [personal profile] momijizukamori in [site community profile] dw_dev is asking about API wishlist items. Get at it quick if you have input!

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[(±) s0] Oops

9 September 2017 05:51
chalcedony_starlings: Two scribbled waveforms, one off-black and one off-white, overlapping, on a flat darkish purpleish background. (scribble twins)

And then we spent the entire day prototyping a slightly awful scriptreplay(1) Web frontend thing. Including a subset of xterm emulation. Oops.

(Cc [personal profile] indicoyote c..c)

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