Erkki

This test will test the bots endurance. I predict it will last an hour. I couldn't find HHGTG right away, maybe someone could point me to it. Notes: Only the first post after JSimpleton's last post will get parsed. unless it contains a disabled command or a "comment", then it moves on to reading the next post. comments can be posted by starting your posts with # or / -- that means the bot will not try to parse your post. [*]Only the first line of any post will be parsed [*]DO NOT DELETE POSTS. That would probably crash it or more likely make it skip some future messages. The bot uses very simple *counting* of messages, and if you reduce the count by deleting your post, it will not understand.

My computer was turned off when I got home... So I guess the game is over for now. It's possible there was a power failure or something...

test

#I hope I didn't just set us up for another death.

down

down

examine sack

#hmm...

kill troll

hit troll with sword

# so what do we do to avoid getting killed again? use the sword on the troll?

enter

north If it prints usernames now, I'm going to post a new thread and leave it on... It will probably crash, but what the hell.

north

#this game will not stay blabla

I might try to leave it on for the night running a game (in a new thread) if I manage to fix some issues. Any requests?

Not too difficult to program. It's written in Java, uses apache.org HttpClient to log in, fetch the forum HTML pages, then does some rexexp searches to find the necessary info from these. Then uses a Z-Machine class ripped from Zinc ( zinc-if.sourceforge.net ) to run the game and posts the response again using HttpClient. The idea of running text adventure games on the forums was actually Jake's.

That reminds me that I should someday get back to getting some kind of really fast time in prince of persia. I've never got back to playing it for long enough. In the first level I managed to lure the guy guarding the door and not get the sword. I think the sword was automagically given at the start of the second level. Sometimes I tried to play it with skipping fights wherever possible.

just testing output formatting...

weOPKGregopker egrg blabla epowfkWEPO Wpokef

q wgrgewrgokwprg

quit

I'm posting this using a command line vBulletin interface. Can you believe it?

I can hear you just fine

y yesyestes