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1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Xyzzy
Article: 7855 of alt.hackers From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Xyzzy Date: 21 May 1995 23:54:44 -0500 Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover) Lines: 32 Approved: uh-huh. Message-ID: 3pp5ek$3cn@solutions.solon.com NNTP-Posting-Host: solutions.solon.com Status: RO
In article <3pipuh$82p@eccdb1.pms.ford.com>, Clinton Pierce (R) <cpierce1@cp500.pto.ford.com> wrote: >I've been accused that a recent post regarding the "xyzzy" magic sequence >in some games was a troll. Not so, or at least my troll has backing. The >original statement was: >>"xyzzy" was the "God Code" of the first real aventure game "Advent". It's >>use since then is kind of a tribute. >And the backing is from the Jargon File: [...] It's not a God code. It just verbs you preposition noun preposition noun. (No spoilers *here*.) A God code has to make something otherwise impossible possible, like one of the other magic words in the game (either the set that works together, or the room one), and ideally, allows arbitrary frobbing. PARTIAL SPOILER FOLLOWS Moving between places that are only... *hmm* a handful o' moves apart anyway (exact number forgotten, <10) when you don't need a light for most of the way is hardly a "god code". ObHack: Magically getting my machine to reexport nfs filesystems. Not that I know what I do; but I restart mountd, and nothing happens, and I restart mountd, and nothing happens, and I restart mountd, and it all works. -s -- Peter Seebach - seebs@solon.com -- seebs@intran.xerox.com All the arrogant jerks who object to stereotypes are all alike. C/Unix proto-wizard -- C/Unix questions? Send mail for help. Copyright 1995 Peter Seebach. Not for distribution through Microsoft Network.
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