[dundee] Project: Python/Zork/IRC

[Barry Carr]

Lee,

Here is that article I told you about last night about the Z virtual machine:

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/Articles/small.html

Cheers
Barry

Lee Hughes wrote:
> I though of taking is a step further and either
> 
> Writing a Zork Activity for the olpd , I'm sure however has the
> rights to the old zork adventure would be up for donating the Z-Code
> to the project.
> 
> That would either be a sugar interface to the C program.
> or Convert the C frotz, or Java Interpreter to Native Python
> (which is a lot more work) , but be a lot more olpc friendly.
> 
> I can see peoples dismay about porting such game apps as doom,
> hyper violent game , but I used to play zork as a kid and
> 
>  it was fun
>  I used my imagination, to picture scenes, the computer did not do all 
> the work.
>  It improved my typing skils (without knowing it)
>  it improved my spelling accuracy
>  it taught me what a nous and verb was!! heheh
> 
>  there were some problem solving, and lateral thinking.
> 
> oh did I say it was fun!!
> 
> anyone who's wants to help. Also I'd like to formally put a development
> request in for an olpc laptop to do the porting.
> 
> Kris, I got frotz into Dumb made, so it's just taking stdin and stdout,
> so linking it should be no problem now?
> 
> Cheers,
> Lee
> 
> */Kris Davidson <davidson.kris at gmail.com>/* wrote:
> 
>     Lee was talking to me on IRC about creating a Python IRC bot wrapper
>     for Zork to allow collaborative play in a channel.
> 
>     I'm still learning Python; Its on my big and ever expanding list of
>     things I need to do and learn. Anyway I was thinking the easiest way
>     to do this is to get the Python IRC bot to run Zork then read/write
>     from stdout/stdin to the IRC channel. I'm guessing the Subprocess
>     module is the way to go.
> 
>     But I'd like to tap into the lists repository of knowledge and ask:
> 
>     Is this possible?
>     Has it been done already? either in Python or another language
>     Is there something similar already out there?
>     Would anyone like to help?
> 
>     Kris
> 
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