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Is that the composer conducting it?
The difficult we do right away...
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sorry but i do not know . i only know according to Wikipedia Mr. Leung wears glasses . also the conductor in the video seems younger than the resident Orchestra conductor as shown on the Orchestra web site .
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Thought I'd blown that one after a promising start!
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"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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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Yesterday I got a question from one of the junior developers about using search to get something out of our in-house document repository. My reply was:
From MS Teams: The starting point is usually one of tag tables...
You are in a maze of twisty, little passages, all alike. I had to explain the reference to him.
Earlier today, I mentioned this to one of the senior developers, who also didn't recognise it, and, after I explained, commented that he was "minus ten years old" when the source of this was popular.
Who else here remembers where this comes from and spent time on it?
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I spent a lot of time in those twisty passages....
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Zork said: "You are likely to be eaten by a grue."
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That's from the Adventure text game, right?
The difficult we do right away...
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A hollow voice says "Plugh"
"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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βPLOVERβ was another good one.
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XYZZY
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. - Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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I know it as
βColossal Caveβ.
It was available as an Android app on Amazonβs app store a few years back.
Did you also tell them that the Guaranteed Escape for that maze (versus the βall differentβ maze) was
North
North
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Down
I first saw the game at the local Junior College on its HP 3000 mini which was the size of 2-3 refrigerators circa 1981.
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I first saw it on a Prime 400 at Rutherford Labs in 1978 when I was on the "Industry" part of a "thick sandwich" degree course. When I left to return to Uni, they gave me a complete copy of the FORTRAN source code on microfiche since I had spent so much time on the game!
"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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OriginalGriff wrote: FORTRAN source code on microfiche
Although I know one can do AWS Lambda in COBOL I am unsure about FORTRAN. But presumably possible.
So then one would just need to figure out how to get it off the microfiche.
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I've never tried it - I'm not a masochist - but apparently you can get both Cobol and Fortran in .NET flavours. Which is a horrific idea if you think about it for too long.
"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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I was at Manchester doing a PhD in Nuclear Structure Physics at about the same time (late 70s) and I think is was either the Rutherford or Daresbury computers I was playing it on. For a while, I also had the FORTRAN source code.
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I found the Star Trek game that I'd played on an IBM 370 as an Android app a few years ago.
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This one?
βDo you think it us wise to use unrefined dilithium crystals?β Y/N
5% initial chance of explosion.
doubles each time you do it!
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I am not now, nor have I ever been in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
A 10x10 grid of chambers connected by passages, all alike except for the occasional pit, yes.
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One of my University friends frequently comment that being a sophomore was the three best years of his life. (You had to pass all freshman/sophomore exams to advance to junior level.) Well above two of those three years, he spent on the (ASCII text only) version of Adventure, and he was the very first Great Adventurer Grandmaster of our University.
The game was so that if you dragged all the fortunes you had capture to the exit, that cost you resources, i.e. points. He was the first to realize that the dynamite you had found had very little value in itself. But some of fortunes was found in cave quite close to the outside mountain wall. If you detonated the dynamite there, it would break a hole into free air, where you could escape with all your treasures and earn the very highest grade. If you tried to set the dynamite off in other caves, you were usually told that "Unfortunately, you are now dead. I can incarnate you, but that will cost you 500 points."
Although the game was command line interpreter based, and could be played on an teletype, the version we had checked whether the terminal was a CRT, with escapes for things like inverse video (black on green rather than green on black). So when the dynamite blast went off, the program sent the escape sequences to the screen to turn the entire 25 by 80 characters inverse video, then back to normal, another flash of inverse video and back. The first one of the students setting off the dynamite was totally unprepared and fell of his chair from the shock
Drawing maps of the little twisting passages, all alike (or was that twisting little passages? Or little twisty passages? Or twisty little passages? or passages, all twisty and alike?) came at a very early stage, and was in fact a collaborate effort among a group of eager adventurers.
Not all of it was playing, though. We managed to obtain the Adventure source code (in Fortran!), and this study mate of mine spent a lot of his time expanding the cave with new passages, new fortunes to be found, and did major restructuring of the data structures to hold the the treasures you collected, information about your path and he made improvements to the input analyzer. So it was far from a complete waste of time - he learned a lot of programming that way. He graduated as an EE engineer, but from that day he has been a full time programmer, and still is.
My study mate's three sophomore years lasted from the fall of 1979 to the spring of 1982. I believe that we got hold of the source code in the spring of 1980. Maybe it was in the fall that year.
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trΓΈnderen wrote: Drawing maps of the little twisting passages, all alike (or was that twisting little passages? Or little twisty passages? Or twisty little passages? or passages, all twisty and alike?) came at a very early stage, and was in fact a collaborate effort among a group of eager adventurers. I think it was Zork which a had an ice maze which you entered by sliding down an unclimbable slope and had descriptions like...
You are in a little maze of twisty passages, all different.
You are in a twisty little maze of passages, all different.
You are in a maze of little twisty passages, all different.
You are in a twisty passage of a little maze, all different.
etc...
**SPOILER**
When mapped. the result was the word THURB, upside down, which was the magic word to exit the maze.
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