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What does it take to generate the drum sounds ZZT makes? This table of frequencies: 0: 3200 1: 1100, 1200, 1300, 1400, 1500, 1600, 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, 2100, 2200, 2300, 2400 2: 4800, 4800, 8000, 1600, 4800, 4800, 8000, 1600, 4800, 4800, 8000, 1600, 4800, 4800 3: (empty) 4: 500, 2556, 1929, 3776,...

Immediately after these findings, I discovered it's not the whole truth :)

The entire 32 bit state is kept, but only the upper 16 bits are considered for the random number- so it's actually:

Got momentum again. Games are playable. OOP runs. Scrolls need to be re-added to the UI. I found out that ZZT uses the standard random number generator from Borland Turbo Pascal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator The formula is: state = (state * 33797) + 1; return state % n...

Fantastic work! Some nitpicks: - Message colors appear to flash from colors 8-F. In ZZT, they flash 9-F only (no dark gray.) - Messages appear to flash and disappear while paused (for example, in Town, when you get zapped.) In the original engine, message colors are not cycled while paused, and mess...

Oh, this looks fun. :)

Banana Quest will try your patience. :)

They can, and I'm glad they do.

Any opportunity I can spout off needless technical trivia about ZZT, I can't refuse!

The only directional command that exists is #IDLE. Otherwise, you need to use the directional commands as such: /w /west #go w #go west One interesting thing to note is that / and #go are not 100% identical. - "#go idle" will actually freeze a program. It does not check if the desired vect...

Not that it prevents you from actually doing it, and I can show you how to kill the player permanently, making the game engine not recognize any keyboard input. Not that it's useful :) I remember somebody finding out a way to do this years ago and now I'm curious if it's the same method that I know...

#endgame sets your health to zero. But the check for zero health only happens when it's the Player's turn to act. So if you have an object use #endgame, then #give health 100, it essentially sets the player's health to 100 without spawning any mressages. The odd behavior in player clones is due to t...

Centipedes are, with the exception of the player and OOP parser, the most complex component. Even when digging around in assembly, it was still a lot of work (and even I don't have it completely perfect- there's an extra redraw in there somewhere when it turns around.) I'm glad to hear you were able...

I'm excited to have Spectere onboard for OpenGL and cross-platform support. An OpenGL-based terminal has been added as of today.

Looks like using Git is working out extremely well.

I'm replicating the original interfaces first. Could be fun to expand on that later.

Fun fact: To show an entire Super ZZT board unscaled on-screen, you'd need to have room for at least 1536x1120 pixels.