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September 2011
Spike Milligan
- Bentine: I just came in and found him lying on the carpet there.
- Sellers: Oh, is he dead?
- Bentine: I think so.
- Sellers: Hadn't you better make sure?
- Bentine: All right, just a minute.
- [Sound of two gun shots]
- Bentine: He's dead.
Adventure.z5
I’m trying to play the original Adventure game, but LucasArts has not prepared me well.
> use bottle
I only understood you as far as wanting to use.
> use bottle on stream
I only understood you as far as wanting to use.
> use stream
I only understood you as far as wanting to use.
> use
You’ll have to be a bit more explicit than that.
> put water in bottle
The bottle is now full of water.
Having said that, interactive fiction is alive and well today. Two of my favourites are Galatea, by Emily Short, and Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin.
I’ve made a brief and uneventful game: Baldric’s Books. Download Inform 7 and make some games of your own!
(By the way: There’s a notable inky in the interactive fiction scene. I am a different inky.)
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Lebedev (Drum & Bass Mix)
inky
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Figuring out how to use Traktor Pro for mixing, so I can do it live. Here’s a short drum & bass/techstep mix (mistakes ’n’ all).
- Leon Switch & Kryptic Minds – Lost World
- Rockwell – Noir (Ulterior Motive Remix)
- Leon Switch & Kryptic Minds – Flip Funk
- Audio – Control Freak
- Dom & Roland – Take Them Down
- The Sect – Caesium 137
