Hello Mateusz!
Em Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:53:00 +0200 Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr> escreveu: > Okay, I tried it. And I'm lost. That's expected. The loose wording in TM's homepage is part of the game. It plays a dual role: keep the wrong-minded people out and invite the right-minded people in. The truth is hidden within the lines of those paragraphs and deep inside the program's source code. > First, I started the game, and I got stuck on a login/password > screen. I tried several combinations, none worked. No way out. Had to > switch off the computer. This alone can be seen as a real nuisance. That's true. I'll consider this as a feature request for the next release. ;-) > Second attempt - I read on your website the login and password (how > would someone figure it out when getting the program from anywhere > else than directly from your website?) They should not, unless someone who already has access provides one to them. > The login/password works. I got in a shell where I can run a > matrix-like screensaver, clear the screen, or exit back to DOS. Any > other command I tried to type ended with a blinking "NO REPLY" > message. It seems RIS is not willing to talk to you. > I really don't get it. I might be missing something, since I am not > much into intelectual games, but I find the Terminal Matrix > experience highly frustrating. Have you watched the demo session? http://oitofelix.github.io/terminal-matrix-8086/tm.mp4 > If I understand it right, this is some kind of shell prototype, > right? But then, maybe could you actually turn it into something > useful, like maybe an interactive fiction engine or so? As such, a > prototype is likely to be of any interest only to you. It's not a prototype, it's a fully working program as demonstrated in that video. Besides being a terminal of communication to an hyper-dimensional being, Terminal Matrix is an experiment in psychology, free software development model and remote ideological corroboration. > BTW, you might want to announce such stuff rather on the FreeDOS user > list. FreeDOS-devel is rather about development. I've already announced it there as well. Thank you for playing TM! -- ,= ,-_-. =. Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro (oitofelix) [0x28D618AF] ((_/)o o(\_)) http://oitofelix.freeshell.org/ `-'(. .)`-' irc://chat.freenode.org/oitofelix \_/ xmpp:oitofe...@riseup.net GNU maintainer: ccd2cue DMOZ free software editor (Portuguese) UFU FAMAT PET member [GNU DISCLAIMER] I'm a GNU hacker, but my views don't necessarily match those of the GNU project. Hereby I express my own opinion, style and perception, in good faith, aiming the betterment of GNU.
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