Boot To Zork 106
Seemingly to inflict more suffering upon himself, Matthew Garrett (lord of getting things to boot using EFI) decided that booting directly into Zork would be cool. Quoting his weblog entry: "So, Frotz seemed like the natural choice when this happened. But despite having a set of functionality that makes it look much more like an OS than a boot environment, UEFI doesn't actually expose a standard C library. The EFI Application Development Kit solves this particular design decision. Porting Frotz ended up involving far more fixing up of Frotz bugs that tripped up -Werror than anything else. One note, though - make sure you include DevShell in the list of required packages at build time, otherwise file i/o will mysteriously fail."
Grab the code, assuming you have a copy of Zork (or any other Z-machine game, as long as you name it ZORK1.DAT, I think).
Not the grue! (Score:5, Funny)
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Re:Not the grue! (Score:5, Funny)
Grue Screen of Death
Re:Text based adventure as a boot option? (Score:5, Funny)
Someone do this, I loved playing the text-based adventure games as a kid. Someone should bring these back.
If only there was a way to search for things like that on the Internet...
Re:Question (Score:5, Funny)
Because he can.
And, more importantly, because you can't.
Re:Text based adventure as a boot option? (Score:5, Funny)
Transcript (Score:5, Funny)
Your way is blocked by a tall, bald pirate.
> KILL PIRATE
With what, your bare hands?
> INVENTORY
You have:
One hard disk drive,
One CDROM drive,
One USB drive,
A rather large magnet
A DVD containing LinuxMint
> EXAMINE HARD DRIVE
The disk appears to contain a bootable copy of Windows 8.
> ATTACK PIRATE WITH MAGNET
The pirate parries, and your magnet hits the hard disk drive.
READ ERROR, SECTOR 0
>
Re:Anyone else feel like they're having a stroke? (Score:3, Funny)
You RTFA and paid the price. Now get out.
Re:Not the grue! (Score:4, Funny)
You are likely to be eaten by a GRUB.
Re:Transcript (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Anyone else feel like they're having a stroke? (Score:5, Funny)
And he was eaten by a Grue.
Re:Not the grue! (Score:4, Funny)
===ZorkOS v.1.0===
You are in a filesystem of twisty symbolic links:#>_