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@ultranurd we should all go back to graffiti

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@jk i'm waiting for a package

the future comes so slowly and the past distances itself so quickly

is it autistic misophonia or am i just an asshole crank? the drinking party game

@rob it's a mini laptop https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008375074499.html

little red riding hood mouse

@Angela i'm watching like sickos through the window

@atax1a gesundheit

after fixing a couple more typos, it seems the game is playable

but i'm rubbish at it 😅

i'll take a break for today, i've taken down notes on what i found interesting about this experience to write a blog post on later

oh nevermind!

went to check on a dumped BBC copy of the game (it has a fancy title screen, perhaps usborne published it as a disk at some point, or a superfan made a very fancy version?) and the behaviour i thought was a parser bug is there just as on my conversion

well, time to test play it through then :)

@beka_valentine i decided to transcribe this on a whim because i've been thinking about BASIC a lot recently (i blame my restlessness waiting for my PicoCalc to ship) and absolutely this is giving me a lot of thoughts i want to put into a blog post

@beka_valentine Island of Secrets, published by Usborne in 1984, released for free on their website: https://usborne.com/gb/books/computer-and-coding-books

fwiw the parser on this is equal parts extremely clever and extremely jank - only the first 3 letters of a command are parsed

yes part of the typos keeping it from working were here 😅

i think it's mostly working... but i think something on the parser is still wrong

on top of some typos i made, i've had to make quite a few modifications as the book doesn't recognize IBM/GW-BASIC as one of the languages the game is ported to

@arielmt because the book doesn't consider IBM PC/GW-BASIC one of the variants the game has been ported to :)

well... i'm done typing!

only one more page to go!