{"id":696,"date":"2003-12-31T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-31T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/will-the-online-coolness-ever-end\/"},"modified":"2019-02-20T21:56:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:56:33","slug":"will-the-online-coolness-ever-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/12\/31\/will-the-online-coolness-ever-end\/","title":{"rendered":"will the online coolness ever end?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this TI-99\/4A emulator for Windows.. other OSes um, I guess go<br \/>\ninstall it on your friend&#8217;s Windows computer:<\/p>\n<p>          ftp:\/\/ftp.whtech.com\/emulators\/Win994a.ZIP<\/p>\n<p>This emulator is especially cool because it comes with a whole bunch of old cartridge roms, the best of which is &#8220;Hunt The Wumpus&#8221;. Here&#8217;s how it works:<\/p>\n<p>      Open Win994a..<br \/>\n      Go to &#8220;Carts > Insert Cartridge&#8230; > Hunt The Wumpus&#8221;<br \/>\n      Press any key to begin.<br \/>\n      Press 2 for English (3 for French and 4 for who knows what)<br \/>\n      Pick the difficulty you want (probably easy to start out with)<br \/>\n      Pick the option you want (only normal is any good)<br \/>\n      Okay, the game begins!<\/p>\n<p>Your goal is to find and kill the Wumpus, who is somewhere in the maze you just appeared in, but haven&#8217;t seen and doesn&#8217;t move. You only have one arrow, so make it count! When you&#8217;re next to the room with the Wumpus in it, press Q to mean you&#8217;re ready to shoot your arrow and then press in the direction you think he&#8217;s in. Your arrow will let fly.. if you hit him you win, if you don&#8217;t, YOU DIE! Who knows why? Perhaps I lie! You can also die by walking onto the Wumpus or falling into one of the two pits in each randomly-generated maze.<\/p>\n<p>So, how do you find the Wumpus? You walk around with the arrow keys<br \/>\nlooking for blood.. the Wumpus has left a trail of blood two &#8220;rooms&#8221; away from his location in every direction. There is also a little bit of warning for pits.. there&#8217;s green slime in rooms directly next to a pit. That&#8217;s it! Oh, except there are also bats in some rooms, and if you walk on them too many times, they&#8217;ll carry you to a random<br \/>\nlocation (which could be right in a pit or the Wumpus himself!) Also, there are curvy paths between rooms sometimes. These paths connect rooms as though they were right next to each other.. e.g. a room two away from the Wumpus but only connected via windy paths will still have blood in it. Also, if you shoot your arrow down a windy path it follows it magically until it comes to a room.<\/p>\n<p>Sound confusing? Well, you must be stupid! It&#8217;s the easiest (and best) game ever! Just give it a shot and you&#8217;ll understand what I&#8217;m talking about way way better. If you like mine sweeper, you&#8217;ll love &#8220;Hunt the Wumpus&#8221;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this TI-99\/4A emulator for Windows.. other OSes um, I guess go install it on your friend&#8217;s Windows computer: ftp:\/\/ftp.whtech.com\/emulators\/Win994a.ZIP This emulator is especially<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","hentry","tag-geeky","post_format-post-format-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3269,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/3269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}