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Super Lloyd wrote: Typical beginner move!
so true!
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I had to find out what that phrase meant...Zork III - Wikipedia[^] I am not an insider of Zork. My friend had the Atari 800 and I had no computer.
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Amazing!
Next.... Master of Orion 2?
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I can recommend Remnants-of-the-precursors[^]
It's an open source clone of the original Master of Orion game written in Java.
Nice job for Raddevus to translate it to .NET 
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Ooo.... I have to check it out...
I am doing a Master of Orion (table top, pen and paper) RPG, and I need the spaceship specs! 
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Just ran it, very good first impression!
Although.. game broken! Can't play Elerian or a customized race! 
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Time to rewrite it in .NET
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Well, I can't but add : Travel Oregon !
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musefan wrote: Should have said you had been waiting so long...
I've also been waiting to make my first $1 million. Can you lend a hand?
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Sorry, I work in GBP (£).
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We had a local band called Zork Aan Mijn Vork (Zork On My Fork).
I've seen them live once or twice I think, but I don't think they exist anymore.
Can't find them on YouTube either.
I never knew if the name was somehow related to the game.
You can also get the Zork games on GOG.com by the way: The Zork Anthology on GOG.com[^]
Never played them myself though.
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Sander Rossel wrote: Never played them myself though.
How dare you!!
Holds hand out waiting for Sander to hand in his Official Geek card.
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I've got enough geek credits to survive this one 
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After lots of struggling and some creative coding I have made my IoT device with no screen and no buttons whatsoever automatically hop on a network and publish itself.
The only thing you need to do when you first power it on is press the WPS button on your router.
I haven't seen other people's code that does this on their Arduinos or ESP32s. I'm kind of hoping this is novel.
I love it though. It's a self contained little black box.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Exploit it fully (possibly on the Dark Web):
Sell the little devices where the purchaser surreptitiously leaves them in the homes of not-really-friends. The little box eventually is connected and can be used for all sorts of lovely mischief now that it's part of their network.
Whoo hoo! You'll be rich! I wouldn't mind adequate (or better still, substantial) remuneration from that vast hoard of cash and bitcoin you'll accumulate.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Hahaha. Actually that's a really good idea. It could be like, a toaster or something. But it just sits there, maybe for a year, listening.. waiting.. until you hit that WPS button. Then it's on!
Real programmers use butterflies
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I do not know what and how you done, but I had an arduino based project where the device scanned available networks and connected the correct one based on some secret key... So no configuration needed after the device turned on, you saw it connecting to the central server and start sending in data...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Every Wifi camera nowadays work like this.
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Good!
Real programmers use butterflies
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I have invented a new cosmetic surgery which involves forehead hair implants. It's raised quite a few eyebrows already!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Eye Don't see what you did there
in the hair that you where.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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I don't intend to brow-beat you but is there any wig-gle room if things go wrong?
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Only if it's a close shave.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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