Archive for August 15th, 2007

Examining Will Crowthers Original “Adventure” in Code and in Kentucky

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Digital Humanities Quarterly has published a fascinating article about Will Crowther’s original Adventure game. It turns out that it is closely modelled on a real cave, and the article includes a lot of interesting information and pictures about the real cave. Very neat! I’ve skimmed it, and will try to read it more in depth over lunch. Hope some of you will do so too.

DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Jerz. Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowthers Original “Adventure” in Code and in Kentucky

Addendum: This article on rec.arts.int-fiction also provides links to the original FORTRAN source code.

[tags]Adventure,Interactive Fiction[/tags]

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Hacking the Hot Wheels Radar Gun

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

It’s amazing how inexpensive technology can be. The new “toy” Mattel Hot Wheels radar guns have, well, a real radar gun inside. As in a 10ghz microwave emitter. Here’s some details (I might add a few more links later, but this should get you started):

Hacking the Hot Wheels Radar Gun

[tags]Hacking,Hot Wheels,Microwave,10ghz[/tags]

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