Rogoweb: Rogue and Rog-O-Matic, alive in the browser
The 1980 game Rogue and the expert system built to play it, both compiled to WebAssembly and running side by side in a browser tab. The original C, not a rewrite.
Games
3 articles and 2 projects.
Writing
Colossal Cave Adventure, rebuilt over breakfast
Colossal Cave Adventure ported to strictly typed TypeScript over a few breakfasts, and checked against the original's own ninety-five test transcripts. Then a second model laid out the cave map the first one could not.
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Reverse engineering Infocom games - the first open source Z-Machine interpreter
In 1987 five of us at Sydney University took Infocom's virtual machine apart to see how it worked. We did not expect it to matter to anyone else.
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Projects
Adventure
Colossal Cave Adventure, the game that founded interactive fiction, ported faithfully to modern TypeScript. With location art, a metro-style interactive map of all 151 rooms, and a Solve button.
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Rogoweb
The classic 1980 Unix game Rogue and its automated player Rog-O-Matic, running in the browser. Not a reimplementation, but the original C source compiled to WebAssembly.
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