Hithhikers adventure 'revival'

[Giles]

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I see that the BBC is releasing an illustrated version of the
hitchhiker's guide adventure. (see
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3615046.stm).
Anybody know anything about this (are they converting the z file to
blorb or z6 or something)?

-Giles

 

[Guest]

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> I see that the BBC is releasing an illustrated version of the
> hitchhiker's guide adventure. (see
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3615046.stm).
> Anybody know anything about this (are they converting the z file to
> blorb or z6 or something)?

I e-mailed them, but they replied that they could not reveal what they were
doing. I *assume* it's going to be a Flash reimplementation, since I doubt
anyone's writing a ZIL compiler for the original source or
reverse-engineering/rewriting it with graphics compatibility in Inform.

-- Gunther

 

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Here, Gunther Schmidl <gschmidl@xxx.gmx.at> wrote:
> > I see that the BBC is releasing an illustrated version of the
> > hitchhiker's guide adventure. (see
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3615046.stm).
> > Anybody know anything about this (are they converting the z file to
> > blorb or z6 or something)?
>
> I e-mailed them, but they replied that they could not reveal what they were
> doing. I *assume* it's going to be a Flash reimplementation, since I doubt
> anyone's writing a ZIL compiler for the original source or
> reverse-engineering/rewriting it with graphics compatibility in Inform.

A new HHGG game in Flash, maybe. A Flash game inspired by the original
locations and puzzles, maybe. A Flash reimplementation -- in the sense
of recreating the original parser, puzzles, and interaction -- no.

--Z

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[samwyse]

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On or about 9/3/2004 11:57 PM, Andrew Plotkin did proclaim:

> A new HHGG game in Flash, maybe. A Flash game inspired by the original
> locations and puzzles, maybe. A Flash reimplementation -- in the sense
> of recreating the original parser, puzzles, and interaction -- no.

A Z-code interpreter written in Flash, maybe?

 

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Here, samwyse <dejanews@email.com> wrote:
> On or about 9/3/2004 11:57 PM, Andrew Plotkin did proclaim:
>
> > A new HHGG game in Flash, maybe. A Flash game inspired by the original
> > locations and puzzles, maybe. A Flash reimplementation -- in the sense
> > of recreating the original parser, puzzles, and interaction -- no.
>
> A Z-code interpreter written in Flash, maybe?

Can't believe they'd get through it without asking some questions,
either here or on the Z-machine mailing list.

--Z

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