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Where can I play this game? It’s probably available online in-browser? Also would love to see what ChatGPT would output if asked to describe a map or give inst

Where can I play this game? It’s probably available online in-browser? Also would love to see what ChatGPT would output if asked to describe a map or give instructions to draw.

markx2 4y ago
One place is https://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/5zyoqrsugeopel3ffhz_vq/zork https://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/5zyoqrsugeopel3ffhz_...
- moffkalast 4y ago
  > There is a small mailbox here. > A rubber mat saying 'Welcome to Zork!' lies by the door. > check mailbox > That's not a verb I recognise. Ok yeah this thing could use some more NLP support.
  - anthk 4y ago
    Edit Dungeon/Zorks' Z-machine source code (zdungeon) to define new verbs. http://www.penguincentral.com/retrocomputing/zdungeon/ http://www.penguincentral.com/retrocomputing/zdungeon/ Inform6+Inform6 lib: http://jxself.org/git/inform http://jxself.org/git/inform http://jxself.org/git/informlib http://jxself.org/git/informlib Inform's Begginer's Guide: https://rinform.org/docs/IBG.pdf https://rinform.org/docs/IBG.pdf The advanced one, for advanced Inform programmers: https://inform-fiction.org/manual/DM4.pdf https://inform-fiction.org/manual/DM4.pdf EDIT: I found no source for the ZDungeon port of it, but you can get the C version: https://github.com/devshane/zork https://github.com/devshane/zork
    - moffkalast 4y ago
      You'll likely always be behind the curve with that kind of basic approach I think, wouldn't it make more sense to retrain a transformer to map all possible inputs to the few possible actions?
      - anthk 4y ago
        Inform6 it's very powerful. You define the actions objects, and it does it very well by default. Objects have atributes (openable, stackable, decoration...lots of them) and you can even set the library messages on these actions after being done (or before).
      - egypturnash 4y ago
        Zork was originally written in 1977 on a PDP-10, which had a ceiling of about one megabyte of memory; it was ported to microcomputers in three parts from 1980-1982, and had to fit into about 48k of RAM and 85-170k of disc space. It is approximately forty-five years old. The curve has long since moved on.
  - ncr100 4y ago
    For a moment I hoped you were offering these prompts on HN, and would run a game of Zork via a comment thread.

Where can I play this game? It’s probably available online in-browser? Also would love to see what ChatGPT would output if asked to describe a map or give instructions to draw.

markx2 4y ago

One place is https://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/5zyoqrsugeopel3ffhz_vq/zork https://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/5zyoqrsugeopel3ffhz_...

moffkalast 4y ago
> There is a small mailbox here. > A rubber mat saying 'Welcome to Zork!' lies by the door. > check mailbox > That's not a verb I recognise. Ok yeah this thing could use some more NLP support.
- anthk 4y ago
  Edit Dungeon/Zorks' Z-machine source code (zdungeon) to define new verbs. http://www.penguincentral.com/retrocomputing/zdungeon/ http://www.penguincentral.com/retrocomputing/zdungeon/ Inform6+Inform6 lib: http://jxself.org/git/inform http://jxself.org/git/inform http://jxself.org/git/informlib http://jxself.org/git/informlib Inform's Begginer's Guide: https://rinform.org/docs/IBG.pdf https://rinform.org/docs/IBG.pdf The advanced one, for advanced Inform programmers: https://inform-fiction.org/manual/DM4.pdf https://inform-fiction.org/manual/DM4.pdf EDIT: I found no source for the ZDungeon port of it, but you can get the C version: https://github.com/devshane/zork https://github.com/devshane/zork
  - moffkalast 4y ago
    You'll likely always be behind the curve with that kind of basic approach I think, wouldn't it make more sense to retrain a transformer to map all possible inputs to the few possible actions?
    - anthk 4y ago
      Inform6 it's very powerful. You define the actions objects, and it does it very well by default. Objects have atributes (openable, stackable, decoration...lots of them) and you can even set the library messages on these actions after being done (or before).
    - egypturnash 4y ago
      Zork was originally written in 1977 on a PDP-10, which had a ceiling of about one megabyte of memory; it was ported to microcomputers in three parts from 1980-1982, and had to fit into about 48k of RAM and 85-170k of disc space. It is approximately forty-five years old. The curve has long since moved on.
- ncr100 4y ago
  For a moment I hoped you were offering these prompts on HN, and would run a game of Zork via a comment thread.