You’re welcome!

I have not thought of that game in a very long time.

Hey thanks! Right now spreading the word about our little project is the best thing one can do, but if you want to write something for us that’d be great as well! There is also donations of course, hah.

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This might be a genuine message but there was a URL on it to a Korean language website that Google Translate wouldn’t handle. We get a lot of comments like that these days, I have removed the link but left the message.)

Awww maybe that’s because it is on a HK server and the network can be a real problem… I’ve put ~50 terminal-based traditional roguelikes on it so far! (Btw the generated spams are quite annoying…)

Thanks! A while back we did features on Alphaman and Omega here, and one on the history of Angband, if you’re interested in that!

Ah hey! I had a look at server.ephesus.quest but it just says to press enter to reconnect so far? (I find I have to check the URLs in all my comments lately, there’s been so much “AI”-generated spam.)

Yay! My own fond memories are of the Let’s Plays, from the era when the world was a 2D plane, when elephants and carp were unstoppable death machines, when you could flip a switch and magmafy the world. The days of image memes and illustrated play stories. I should probably write something about that time, there’s at least one holdout out there who thinks the worst thing DF ever did was add a Z axis.

Lots of nostalgia for watching the Captain Duck tutorials wayyyyyy back in the day 🙂

BTW, just to clarify that I was only one of a whole team to put the TOWNSQUEER bundle and zine together. I gotta shout out my fellow organizers Bram Dingelstad, PRINCESS INTERNET CAFé, FUTURE RUINS (who made that great cover and all the key art!!), Luka the Mouse, Araly, Zorzamoth, and all the contributions we got from the members on gamedev.lgbt. The trailer itself was made by Lukito, and yeah, it is a very cool indeed and well worth the embed haha! We really hope you enjoy the bundle and zine and check out the kind of cool queer art you can find on gamedev.lgbt!!

Well no. Turing completeness only tells us what can theoretically be computed in principle, it says nothing about hardware interfaces or suitability of data. COBOL is such a weird language, it uses fixed-point math for instance. it was made for human-readable code in the domain of financial applications. I had a college course in it once, although that was many years ago now. It’d be scarcely less likely to work out than writing a shader in Inform 7, a language specific to the domain of writing text adventure games.

Isn’t that an inevitable corollary of Turing completeness?

Nethack is still my favorite roguelike game, even though I haven’t played much of it in the years since. Once you know basically everything in the game, even though it’s a lot, it loses much of its capacity to surprise. I should really dig into it again now!

https://web.archive.org/web/20210323181450/http://www.gamesetwatch.com/column_at_play/

I really would love to go deep on NetHack someday, I’m more of a DCSS and Angband guy but I’ve always appreciated it from afar.

I know that, in fact I’ve done that with my old Switch. But I forgot it.

> (Note: I’ve been told since writing this that you can still get images off using an SD card… although if you have a Switch 2 like I do you’re probably just as out of luck as it uses SD Express cards. I’ve yet to confirm cross compatibility with those, I don’t think I have the right kind of adapter.)

You don’t need to take the SD card out or use an adapter, just use a USB cable and plug the Switch itself in to your PC

This came up after the post went live, although in its way it makes it even more infuriating that the “simple” way of getting images off is meaninglessly restricted. I should probably edit the post to add this information in though.