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LAN-LOK: The Antarctic DOS Sabotage Game Lost for 34 Years
- ssl-3 4mo agoPlayable in-browser here for those who wish to skip directly to the chase: https://archive.org/details/Lanlok https://archive.org/details/Lanlok
- r3trohack3r 4mo agoAnyone find a way to get this to work on mobile? It loads and runs fine but there isn’t a way to provide any input into the emulator that I can find.
- a1o 4mo agoIt would be cool if the dos emulator this uses would be updated with some touch controls that were like the old hackers keyboard on Android and some drag mouse like scummvm.
- rkagerer 4mo agoThanks, this is cute. I lost my first try, then managed to win with 3380 points on my next go. Tip: Don't be afraid to use commands #3 and #4.
- pimlottc 4mo agoIt should be noted that nemesis “Evil Al” is “AL” not “AI”; the font makes this quite ambiguous
- DanHulton 4mo agoI know it's "Evil AL", not "Evil AI", but there _is_ an "Evil AI" at work here - this is aislop, pure and simple. I wondered for a bit why the whole thing felt repetitive and boring, and then I hit this paragraph and it threw everything else into context: > LAN-LOK is more than a forgotten DOS curiosity, it is a preserved moment in the daily life of Antarctic research stations during the earliest days of their local area networks. It captures the frustrations, humor, and personalities that shaped computing at Palmer Station as it transitioned from isolated standalone PCs to a shared (fragile) LAN. It's frustrating, because this game absolutely has the vibes of a lot of old DOS/door games and I was kinda interested in learning about it, but this just sucks all the fun and interest out of it.
- crummy 4mo agoThat sentence does set off alarm bells, but in the context of the entire article I don't think it's AI written.
- DanHulton 4mo agoI dunno, the rest of the article feels very AI-written as well. Immediately after that, it goes into an overly in-depth bullet-pointed breakdown, it repeats information constantly... It’s either written by an AI or I’m sorry, it’s just poorly written.
- l23k4 4mo agoCome on, try and imagine the human being who would write that sentence. The article is obviously AI written in its entirety. I mean look at this sentence which randomly contains the " - " pattern twice in a row, which is then not repeated once anywhere else in the article: > Created after the installation of the station’s first peer-to-peer local area network (PalmerLAN), the game captures - through humor, satire, and surprisingly accurate mechanics - the daily realities of early LAN administration in one of the most isolated research communities on Earth. Totally natural human writing!
- timschmidt 4mo agoUsing dashes twice like that is valid. It's a bit like parentheses, to frame a tangential statement between them, but with emphasis instead of quietly. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash I use that construction in my totally human writing often enough. Some of us missed a few English classes it seems.
- l23k4 4mo agoAre you seriously going to claim that this is not LLM generated? https://alphapixeldev.com/what-is-a-mercenary-programmer-and-how-can-we-help-you-solve-your-difficult-problems/ https://alphapixeldev.com/what-is-a-mercenary-programmer-and... The guys twitter account is full of LLM slop: https://x.com/alphapixel https://x.com/alphapixel Perhaps all these other posts from the same author in completely different styles are also not LLM generated? https://wildirismarketing.com/articles-and-blog-posts/ https://wildirismarketing.com/articles-and-blog-posts/ >I use that construction in my totally human writing often enough. Some of us missed a few English classes it seems. I made no comment as to the validity of the construction.