You are still in the farmhouse.  The computer continues to flash a Guru Meditation screen.

> SHOOT COMPUTER

The computer explodes in a hailstorm of plastic and silicon as the shotgun blast hits the system cabinet.

You are in a farmhouse.

There are bits of plastic and silicon on the floor.

> _

plugh

Tue Feb 18 2025 23:44:03 UTCfrom LoanShark

PLAY FARMVILLE

You just shot the computer, Tex.

 

Inventory

You have a shotgun with expended shells.

look

You see a destroyed Amiga 500 that couldn't have run Farmville without a graphics card and a network adapter in the first place.

You see a floppy disk containing the iBrowse web browser.

You see a manual for iBrowse indicating you need more RAM to run it and AmigaOS 3.1 or newer.

You see an Amiga Workbench 1.3 floppy disk.

You are in a farmhouse.

Atari for the win.

Wed Feb 19 2025 21:10:36 UTC from SamuraiCrow

 

You see a destroyed Amiga 500 that couldn't have run Farmville without a graphics card and a network adapter in the first place.

 

> EXAMINE WALLS

There are four of them!  Kind of rustic ... after all, it's a farmhouse.  The windows have basic trim and framing and there are signs of slight water damage.

> EXAMINE FLOOR

The floor is made of wooden boards about 20 cm wide.  Years of wear and poor maintenance have raised the grain and added a few damaged spots.  Some of the floorboards are loose and need repair.

> LIFT FLOORBOARD

Oh, a wise guy, eh?  You think that just because this is a text adventure there's going to be a secret cavern under the floor?

> YES

Congratulations!  You have discovered a secret cavern under the floor.

> DOWN

You are in a crawl space about 2 meters high.  Concrete block walls frame the farm house above.  On the north face of the foundation there are some damp boulders covering what sounds like running water behind them.  To the east there is a gap in the wall leading to what looks like a hand dug tunnel.

> _

Shit... after how long I've been gone, I come back, and a reply to me, on Amiga (probably V4SA) getting a GURU meditation is the last post. It must have been awhile. 
I'm about to drop a blog about updating to the latest V4SA core and updating all my ApolloBoot cores to the latest OS images - and... how great it is. They've really made progress. ApolloOS, an Aros variant - is now itself pretty damn stable and compatible.

FPGA is still the tits. The Apollo guys with Vampire have really made some incredible progress on Amiga FPGA. They're about to drop something called the A6000 - it is just an V4 Stand alone in a 3d printed A600 care with a mechanical keyboard - but it adds easy access to the CF slots and SD card and a few other features - it is pretty incredible - at least, that in 2025 there is still a viable market case for an Amiga compatible clone that runs slower than an emulated Amiga on a Pi 5. 

I just like the retro things. So for me - it is pretty cool what those Germans are doing. 

Also, you guys and your Zork text adventure are cracking me up. 

Maybe I don't need to be a sysop, maybe I just need to be content with being a CITazen. 

Fun fact: I've never played Zork.

I played Adventure (colossal cave), and a few Infocom titles later on, but I've never played Zork.

Fri Nov 14 2025 14:15:07 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

Fun fact: I've never played Zork.

I played Adventure (colossal cave), and a few Infocom titles later on, but I've never played Zork.

The furthest I ever got in a text adventure was Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy. They were incredibly difficult. Now Internet Walk-throughs make everything easy. You should go back and complete those bastards.