I didn't even know Microsoft owned Zork.
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I didn't even know Microsoft owned Zork. But, I'm glad they've open-sourced it. https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source
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I didn't even know Microsoft owned Zork. But, I'm glad they've open-sourced it. https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source
@swelljoe Now if they'd just make the rest of the Infocom catalog legitimately available in a format that can be played across platforms (so, not the iOS app).
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@swelljoe Now if they'd just make the rest of the Infocom catalog legitimately available in a format that can be played across platforms (so, not the iOS app).
@matt @swelljoe It is a little bit precious to say they're open-sourcing three games and then they link to https://github.com/historicalsource/ , which has *all* of them.
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@matt @swelljoe It is a little bit precious to say they're open-sourcing three games and then they link to https://github.com/historicalsource/ , which has *all* of them.
@zarfeblong @matt source being findable isn't the same as Open Source. Open Source means you can legally remix and legally sell or give away your new version.
You still can't ship a game called "Zork" (trademarks are still protected), but Open Source means the game and story can be repurposed in whatever way you want...and it means it can live forever, even if the owners of the IP decide it's not worth keeping available and playable on current hardware (which has happened a few times).
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Mi piace andare dal fioraio e vedere quando confezionano fiori e piante.
Sono a loro modo artisti.
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Undo/redo works, with infinite(ish) history. Now to refactor the multisprite bank thing to be more sensible (start with one sprite, and add an Add Sprite button, along with sprite operations like copy/paste), and maybe change the layout some, though I'm not sure how, yet. I guess Spritemate gets it pretty close to right.
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@guardaminfaccia delusione fiscale (quando lo Stato riceve un gettito minore al previsto a causa dell'elusione)
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Hey, so a fun thing about the AI bubble is that agentic AI needs web search APIs. There was a project I worked on in the past, that I would still like to finish, that needed a cheap search API that allows date-based queries, so it could fetch results from the past 24 hours.
Historically, this seemingly simple idea was not considered worth implementing by anyone except Google, and they implemented it only for API uses that didn't fit my project.
Now? Several. All targeted at AI usage.
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@raccoon dunno about that, but I'm pretty sure I have seen at least a dōjinshi inspired by the story, and that's before genAI was a thing. Apparently it's a fetish.
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@oblomov@sociale.network
Someone used fucking AI to make porn of her.
I read about it, didn't watch it because bloody hell...
That's just cursed.
I hope it's a lie.
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@raccoon no exceptions means NO EXCEPTIONS. And yes, sadly that requires good filtering capabilities.
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