I was tinkering with Asterisk and the Festival text-to-speech engine, and wrote some short Asterisk::AGI scripts to read back live weather reports. After that, I thought I needed something more interactive to work with... Then I had a flashback to 1996, first year university, standing in the C & O club at the University of Waterloo, where someone had just pulled out their US Robotics Palm Pilot and started up Zork. A couple of hours later, after a quick trip to the campus computer store, I was playing Zork in the palm of my hand! Now Zork is back! Listen as the eerie voice of Festival takes you into the Underground Empire, and marvel as you explore this world with your dial pad, unlocking the secrets within! Note that some more commands need to be implemented before you can actually -enter- the underground empire. For now you can just futz around on the surface. See $dtmf_translation in Asterisk/Games/Zork/ZIO_Asterisk.pm for number-to-phrase translations. I've posted the proof-of-concept at http://uc.org/read/Zasterisk Feedback is welcomed ;-) Cheers, Simon P. Ditner | The Toronto Asterisk Users Group -- http://taug.ca | Join by sending email to asterisk-subscribe@uc.org
Wow! Not sure what else to say. This ranks right up there with my ability to open my garage door from asterisk... -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of simon-asterisk@uc.org Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 1:46 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] z-machine + asterisk = fun! I was tinkering with Asterisk and the Festival text-to-speech engine, and wrote some short Asterisk::AGI scripts to read back live weather reports. After that, I thought I needed something more interactive to work with... Then I had a flashback to 1996, first year university, standing in the C & O club at the University of Waterloo, where someone had just pulled out their US Robotics Palm Pilot and started up Zork. A couple of hours later, after a quick trip to the campus computer store, I was playing Zork in the palm of my hand! Now Zork is back! Listen as the eerie voice of Festival takes you into the Underground Empire, and marvel as you explore this world with your dial pad, unlocking the secrets within! Note that some more commands need to be implemented before you can actually -enter- the underground empire. For now you can just futz around on the surface. See $dtmf_translation in Asterisk/Games/Zork/ZIO_Asterisk.pm for number-to-phrase translations. I've posted the proof-of-concept at http://uc.org/read/Zasterisk Feedback is welcomed ;-) Cheers, Simon P. Ditner | The Toronto Asterisk Users Group -- http://taug.ca | Join by sending email to asterisk-subscribe@uc.org _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 14:59 -0500, Tim Connolly wrote:> Wow! Not sure what else to say. This ranks right up there with my ability to > open my garage door from asterisk...Sarcasm or serious? Sounds cool to me.
On Sunday 07 August 2005 14:45, simon-asterisk@uc.org wrote:> > Now Zork is back! Listen as the eerie voice of Festival takes you into > the Underground Empire, and marvel as you explore this world with your > dial pad, unlocking the secrets within! >Haha! Hehe, very cool. "READ ALL ABOUT IT! How old text games got revitalized through VoIP! "Zork author is making new fortunes as a whole new generation discovers the fun you can have on your phone! Pen and paper not included. -- List Manager Network Voice Communications, Inc. netwvcom.com