NOIZ3 DUDES = TEH LORDS OF COBOL

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― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Friday, 8 October 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I AM FORTRAN TODAY
I AM NO LONGER ENGLISH GRAY

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

smog + archiac code = SO N01Z3

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

my mom has been a Cobol programmer since 1973. She had to learn C++ or whatever to not be "phased out", but is still needed to deal with people still running cobol software. When I was a kid I'd go to her office and she'd take these giant disks the size of a record and place them in a huge computer disk drive the size of a dresser drawer and she'd set me up at a terminal so I could play Othello and Star Trek. But she absolutely CANNOT figure out windows.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

DID YOU EVER PLAY ZORK DAN?

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

SPOILER

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

ADA IS MORE NOIZE!

― Dale Panopticalis (cprek), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

no. I didn't have a computer untill I got a Mac Plus. I did have one cheesy sub Zork txt based game, with pictures, like still pictures, that I'd play on my dad's Compaq. Other then that at friend's houses it was already all about Apple IIgs and Commodore 64 and Atari 2600/5200s etc. I missed the whole text gaming thing.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

EYE HEART ZORK!!!!

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

can you get zork for mac osx? is there an online javascript version?

how cool would a really brilliant, difficult, well-written text game be now?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I played Mist once (Myst?)... it reminded me of Zork.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

WEll, you can always geek out and join a MUD. But i don't know how much you'd enjoy the company.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

no way. I want, like, a text based mystery game written by Umberto Eco.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 8 October 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.robinjohnson.f9.co.uk/adventure/hamlet.html

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Friday, 8 October 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hey Dad," I say cheerily. "What's up?"
"Hamlet," says the old man after a sigh, "you remember how I was found mysteriously dead in the orchard a couple of weeks back? Well... it's like this. Your uncle Claudius poisoned me so he could become king and marry your mother. I'd be awfully grateful if you could kill him for me."
"All right," I say, "I'll do it!"
My life suddenly seems to have purpose.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 8 October 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

ADA = noize?

as in the DoD language ADA? icky poo. nay, that's like a john ashcroft noize fest.

i think perl makes for a better noize language. it's rock and roll at heart. totally diy. and you can write some completely NASTY shit (see perl obfuscation) that expands into beauty from nowhere.

PLUS, RSA in 4 lines of perl was considered a munition by the law and wasn't supposed to be transported over the US border.

that's some outlaw spunk rightchair.
m.

― msp (msp), Friday, 8 October 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Speaking from experience, i know that the only real noise programming language is K&R C.

http://www.cca.org/music/knights.html

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Friday, 8 October 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

nice work.

when i was a teen we used to make songs in BASIC using the system beep and loops for space.

i've done some signal gen stuff with this:

http://www.realitydiluted.com/projects/hc11/comref/6811ref.html

but got tired of having to repair the damned thing. (i'm not very good with a soldering iron.)

i've messed around with java sound and directsound via c# and stuff... i have a project, but i'm still starting it.
m.

― msp (msp), Friday, 8 October 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

We were supposed to program for that motorola during one of my classes in college. We spent weeks preparing for it and then they announced that we couldn't afford to buy any of the hardware and we had to settle for an emulator.

― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Friday, 8 October 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I spent a year using Opcode Max in a music conservatory.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 8 October 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

ahh... the emulator... i've debugged my programs on that a little...well, at least one version of the emulator.

we had to buy ours. we got a discount though... they cost $68.11, which was kind of a fun price i guess. did some cool stuff with it, but i haven't done anything like that since. i kinda stay on the software end of things. less magical perhaps, but...

dan,
i've always wanted to play with max/msp, but have never had the chance.
m.

― msp (msp), Friday, 8 October 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

It was cool. We had a Roland PG-100, which was their hardware controller for the D-50, 100 or so sliders in the days before cheap midi controllers. We'd map the sliders to all sorts of things, triggering samples, controlling pitch, controlling filters etc.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 8 October 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

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