ELI5 ?
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Zork is a text adventure where you enter text commands and then the game responds in text - to describe the surroundings, highlight items or places of interest, etc. Like, the game says "You are in a forest," and you type "go south," and the game updates to tell you what's in your new location. It's like the AI text adventures you see now (which are based on Zork-style games), but with every command and response hand-coded.
The Grues are monsters that eat you in Zork. "You were eaten by a grue" is a common bad ending.
Oh a floppy you are the hero so. Thanks for the explanation.
Edit : but why a non floppy ?
The 5.25 inch floppy disk were actually very bendy (floppy), while the 3.5 inch one was rigid, so I guess that's why OP named it that?
Yeah. Everyone I knew always called them floppies whether they were 8" (mostly before my time), 5¼" or 3.5". Op was probably just adding for humor or something.
I worked at a university computer lab in the late 90s, and soooo many people referred to the 3.5"ers as "hard disks."
That one hurt! I don't know if it is because it was so wrong, or if it is because it was kind of logical.
Some people assumed that "floppy disk" referred to the disk's protective jacket, which was neither a disk nor (in the case of these smaller ones) floppy.
It's possible that OP understands that the disk inside is floppy, and is just making a joke.
5.25” floppy disk: information stored on non rigid disc with non-rigid protective covering.
3.5” floppy disk: information stored on non rigid disc with rigid casing.
The newer, smaller disks were also called floppy because the actual disc inside was just as floppy as its predecessor.
I think OP was reluctant to call it their disk a floppy despite it being historically referred to as such
I always called the 3.5 a "diskette" (or an "A drive" which was incorrect but everyone knew what you meant).
Essentially artisanal AI. Hand made by proud hard working native developers of old silicon valley.
It's like the AI text adventures you see now
but actually good and written by a human with lots of warmth and humor, unlike the pale AI imitations
Zork is a text-based adventure game first released in 1977
Old-school adventure game, one of the OG. I think it was CoD BlackOps 1 where one of the secrets was breaking out of your chair in the main menu, being able to walk over to a pc....and literally play the whole of Zork!
I wonder how long it will be before this is known by everyone as a save icon instead of a floppy disc
I went through a phase in middle / high school where grues were constantly appearing in any story or program I made... Great times
I have an immense urge to fwap the little metal thing back and forth until my mom tells me I’m wrecking it.
I had this on the 5 1/4" disk. The kind that actually was floppy.
I never finished that damn game lol. I should probably give it another go one of these days.
You can carry it around in your phone nowadays!
I never figured out what the eventual goal was. I remember solving various puzzles, like opening the gates to hell, getting through the maze of twisty passages, killing the troll, etc. But I don't remember ever figuring out what the win condition was supposed to be.
"Stay away from my gorls!"
- Grue
It's getting dark