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[xwhatsit]

You force your dagger into a crack and pry. You hear water falling on coins. You succeed in forcing the lock.

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# |.{..| |....<........|
### |....| |.............|
# --|--- #..............|
# ## #|............{|
# # #---------------
### ## ##
## ---.-- #
`#### |...`| #
-+--------# |..{.|# #
|.........# |.....###### #
|........| |....| # -.--.-#
|...@...)| ------ .....-#
|...d....| |....|
---------- |....|
|....|
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Tom the Stripling St:18/02 Dx:10 Co:18 In:9 Wi:8 Ch:10 Lawful
Dlvl:1 $:23 HP:10(16) Pw:2(2) AC:6 Exp:1

Study break -- should be studying -- but I keep finding myself saying `OK, one more go!'

Last year I was in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. `You are likely to be eaten by a grue.' At least I've advanced to the world of ASCII graphics now!

[cave weta]

are you posting this in the right forum?:yawn:

[avgas]

oh god no!!!!!
where can i get a copy of the last one - i got to the point where the house starts running and then had to give the cd back.
k r o z........ when harry was just a pick-pocket slave boy in eastenders.
good times

[Big Dave]

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff140/Javelin09/Nerds.jpg

[Big Dave]

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:MWgncYmmN-epWM:http://www.horrordvds.com/reviews/misc/pictures/nerds.jpg

Potential avatar ^

[phaedrus]

No Points Name Hp [max]
1 1540 phaedrus-Hea-Hum-Mal-Neu died in The Gnomish Mines on
level 6. Killed by a gnome lord. - [42]

i suck at this game

[xwhatsit]

1 95344 tom-Val-Hum-Fem-Law died in The Dungeons of Doom on
level 16 [max 19]. Killed by a gnome king, while
helpless. - [105]

This is as far as I've got so far -- still nowhere close to ascending :P

[Lias]

You force your dagger into a crack and pry. You hear water falling on coins. You succeed in forcing the lock.

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#.....|
###|....| ---------------
# |.{..| |....<........|
### |....| |.............|
# --|--- #..............|
# ## #|............{|
# # #---------------
### ## ##
## ---.-- #
`#### |...`| #
-+--------# |..{.|# #
|.........# |.....###### #
|........| |....| # -.--.-#
|...@...)| ------ .....-#
|...d....| |....|
---------- |....|
|....|
------

Tom the Stripling St:18/02 Dx:10 Co:18 In:9 Wi:8 Ch:10 Lawful
Dlvl:1 $:23 HP:10(16) Pw:2(2) AC:6 Exp:1

Study break -- should be studying -- but I keep finding myself saying `OK, one more go!'

Last year I was in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. `You are likely to be eaten by a grue.' At least I've advanced to the world of ASCII graphics now!

Oh I dunno.. I was always a sucker for the classic infocoms.. Spent more hours playing them than nethack.. Mmm I wonder if any muds are still floating around these days lol.

[gijoe1313]

I played many a hour on Angband, ASCII dungeon bashing o'doom trying to kill the Balrog.

Hmmm seeing this, methinks I should fire it up again and do the ol'keybashing again!

I hate it when you land in a room filled with uniques and its piled with traps :lol:

[xwhatsit]

I played many a hour on Angband, ASCII dungeon bashing o'doom trying to kill the Balrog.
Well you may not want to hear this, but I've just picked up something called MAngband (http://www.mangband.org) -- multiplayer online Angband :eek: Too addictive!

Angband's too easy though. Not enough stupid ways to die like NetHack :devil2:

[phaedrus]

http://www.partiallyclips.com/filk/nethack/RobBalderDotCom_NetHack.mp3
todays death

3 838 phaedrus-Hea-Hum-Mal-Neu died in The Dungeons of Doom
on level 3 [max 4]. Killed by a giant rat, while
helpless. - [37]

[jrandom]

ZOMGLOL!

I must have lost a solid 20% average on at least a dozen CS papers due to Nethack. "Just one more turn..." and suddenly it's 3am. This thread title set all sorts of unhealthily-buried memories tingling.

I have a dirty secret, though - I never ascended.

rec.games.roguelike.nethack was my online hangout back in the spotty teenaged years when I graduated from BBSs, teh innuhneh was shiny and new, and I got to spend 20 minutes at a time fighting busy tones to dial in to my l33t ISP, 'SineSurf'.

Of course, I've grown up now; I just spent four hours playing Baldur's Gate. The primary difference from 15 years ago being that I've just shut the game down due to having a very good reason to go to bed...

:pinch:

This post dedicated to Izchak the Curator - RIP.

[Lias]

rec.games.roguelike.nethack was my online hangout back in the spotty teenaged years when I graduated from BBSs, teh innuhneh was shiny and new, and I got to spend 20 minutes at a time fighting busy tones to dial in to my l33t ISP, 'SineSurf'.


BBS's.. now those were the days.. I still remember the l33tness of my board became a fido point :-)

[Fatjim]

FFS


10chars

[Big Dave]

BBS's.. now those were the days..

Remember when they were all that had pron?

[Blossom]

omg... and I thought I was a nerd....
as you were...:lol:

[Lias]

Remember when they were all that had pron?

And sod all in the way of checking how old you were too. I remember carding memberships to big commercial bbs's, leeching porn like a mad thing then selling it at a horrendous price to less computer literate people at school.

Ahh the good old days lol

[Dargor]

nethack pwns, i've ascended as a wizard ;).

[pzkpfw]

Groovy.

Just last week I got a .Netified version of the old StarTrek ASCII game off CodeProject.

Already spent as much time rewriting as playing...

[Dargor]

Already spent as much time rewriting as playing...

good stuff, thats what games are for right, coding.

[pete376403]

Is that anything like the old "Adventure" that used to run on mainframes? I spent hours playing this at IBM after hours. Never finished it either.
"you are in a maze of little twisty passages, all different..."

[jrandom]

"you are in a maze of little twisty passages, all different..."

Don't you mean 'all alike'?

[pete376403]

Don't you mean 'all alike'?

No,there were two seperate sections in the game - one had the "all alikes" and the other had "all different".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure#Maze_of_twisty_little_pass ages

[xwhatsit]

Is that anything like the old "Adventure" that used to run on mainframes? I spent hours playing this at IBM after hours. Never finished it either.
"you are in a maze of little twisty passages, all different..."
Well, you can download the original source (http://jerz.setonhill.edu/if/crowther/) (provided you know your way around a Fortran compiler), or if you're using Micro-Soft you can get a binary (ftp://ftp.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/pc/adv_crowther_win.zip).

Check out Zork too, I tried Adventure, but it didn't appeal so much. I like games like NetHack and Zork, with a bit of that hackerish sense of humour. You can get Zork and its sequels from a myriad sources.