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Commodore wrote:I'd encourage you to finish your easyflash version of blacksilver, but my allegiance lives here.

That's technically already finished. :] Just lacks an intro and docs for a proper "scene" release.

I won't give up on it :) With a project that's so exciting and has so much going for it, there's no reason to abandon it. I feel I've gotten the framework right where it needs to be in order to do it "right". Every time I get far into the project I shoot myself in the foot due to an infras...

I really, really want to prove myself wrong about "I can't finish jack shit." Given enough time everything eventually gets done, but I get sidetracked.

Well okay, the last few months were due to seeking professional help for other issues. We're back to the regular programming now.

I like the idea that the townfolk are in on it (also under sorcerer's control) and try to convince the hero to directly kill the dragon and to ignore the man behind the curtain. Requires some detective work to really figure out what's happening. He's also got the added benefit if it's a remote plac...

This came to me and I made it up as I went along posting it on Twitter, and it actually sounded like a pretty cool idea. "He'd arrived in this quaint town. Luckily for the town, he was seeking adventure. Luckily for him, they were seeking a dragonslayer. "The so-called dragonslayer located...

Yeah, that line... it rings some truth. By itself, it didn't encourage me to become a coder, but it did encourage me to think not so much about the code line-by-line but more abstract concepts (ZZT did a good job at taking a lot of boilerplate code out and focusing on the unique implementation.) Thi...

That wasn't supposed to be discouraging :) I have just been digging around in the disassembly of ZZT for a couple years already. Almost all of ZZT is mapped out, and a good portion of SuperZZT (mostly just the differences in code). I wouldn't like to consider myself the authoritative source of infor...

I'm away from zzt now, but I'm forgetting a detail of the stat list. If I created a bunch of objects, then centipedes, the centipedes would be at the end of the list, updated last, but if I then delete the objects created before this, do the centipedes maintain their position on the list (i.e. so c...

The unable-to-shoot-adjacent bug is due to the SpawnProjectile function checking to see if the target location is destructible. Players are destructible and objects are not. The reason your player doesn't get killed but you can kill clones is there's a part in the code specifically for Thing #0, whi...

Just some more bits of cool info to augment your findings. ZZT OOP keeps track of things that will end a cycle: - More than 32 commands have been executed. Multiple commands can be on one line. Jumping to a label is considered a command. - The object has moved. Even /i will trigger this. - The code ...

The unfinished projects keep your skills sharp between finished ones.

Kinda seems to reference the snake board directly south in Town specifically. Awesome.

Google Code had some problems with pushing updates the last couple days. Seems to have been resolved. Work will continue now..

That banner's caught attention at work. :]