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The original Myst game was written in Hypercard. With this knowledge, I wrote a Hunt the Wumpus 3D dungeon crawler in my high school CS class when everyone else

The original Myst game was written in Hypercard. With this knowledge, I wrote a Hunt the Wumpus 3D dungeon crawler in my high school CS class when everyone else was stuck with plain ol' text versions.

scroot 9y ago
And it was the best selling computer game of all time for a good chunk of the 90s!
HyperTalk2 9y ago
Were you FruitCase on AOL?
- plushpuffin 9y ago
  No, that was actually me. I think I called it Vumpir Slay. It was a 3D wumpus with something like a 20x20x20 cube and a map editor. I might still have it somewhere.
  - plushpuffin 9y ago
    The only copy I had on my PC was corrupt, but I managed to find a floppy disk from 1997 and a USB floppy drive that worked. I booted into a Linux VM, passed the USB floppy through to the VM, used dd to create a disk image, added it to my BasiliskII configuration, and started a BasiliskII VM inside the Linux VM. I was able to get a Compact Pro file off of the floppy disk image, extract it, and get a working copy of the stack from the archive. At the time that I wrote this, I had never taken any programming courses. I didn't even have any programming books. I was about 15 and entirely self-taught from reading the source code to other people's HyperCard stacks, so the code quality is probably terrible. It is very strange to find out that someone else remembers a stupid project I did as a teenager 23 years ago. http://www.wwddfd.com/plushpuffin/Vumpir.hqx.zip http://www.wwddfd.com/plushpuffin/Vumpir.hqx.zip
    - HyperTalk2 9y ago
      Nice work with the file recovery. I wish I could recover my old stuff but it's all gone. I remember a few names because I was 12 and wanted to be like the cool kids in ElectroSoft. My memory of your exact screen name was refreshed when I stumbled across LightHouse on archive.org a few months ago. https://archive.org/search.php?query=fruitcase https://archive.org/search.php?query=fruitcase

scroot 9y ago

And it was the best selling computer game of all time for a good chunk of the 90s!

HyperTalk2 9y ago

Were you FruitCase on AOL?

plushpuffin 9y ago
No, that was actually me. I think I called it Vumpir Slay. It was a 3D wumpus with something like a 20x20x20 cube and a map editor. I might still have it somewhere.
- plushpuffin 9y ago
  The only copy I had on my PC was corrupt, but I managed to find a floppy disk from 1997 and a USB floppy drive that worked. I booted into a Linux VM, passed the USB floppy through to the VM, used dd to create a disk image, added it to my BasiliskII configuration, and started a BasiliskII VM inside the Linux VM. I was able to get a Compact Pro file off of the floppy disk image, extract it, and get a working copy of the stack from the archive. At the time that I wrote this, I had never taken any programming courses. I didn't even have any programming books. I was about 15 and entirely self-taught from reading the source code to other people's HyperCard stacks, so the code quality is probably terrible. It is very strange to find out that someone else remembers a stupid project I did as a teenager 23 years ago. http://www.wwddfd.com/plushpuffin/Vumpir.hqx.zip http://www.wwddfd.com/plushpuffin/Vumpir.hqx.zip
  - HyperTalk2 9y ago
    Nice work with the file recovery. I wish I could recover my old stuff but it's all gone. I remember a few names because I was 12 and wanted to be like the cool kids in ElectroSoft. My memory of your exact screen name was refreshed when I stumbled across LightHouse on archive.org a few months ago. https://archive.org/search.php?query=fruitcase https://archive.org/search.php?query=fruitcase