zork. you're *streaming* zork. fucking zork. a game so miniscule it could run on every single piece of networking equipment involved in getting that shitty compressed video stream to your computer. hell, decoding the frames is gonna take more power than running the game. - ThreadSky

lizard.tools • 21 hours ago

zork. you're *streaming* zork. fucking zork. a game so miniscule it could run on every single piece of networking equipment involved in getting that shitty compressed video stream to your computer. hell, decoding the frames is gonna take more power than running the game.

Reposted from Shane Luis

Well I got that Xbox Retro Classics thing to work.

Image #1
Mech Warrior 2 (The PS1 version not the PC original)

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Zork

Image #3
Torin's Passage

Any sudden movements from any game causes compression artifacts and streaming issues. This is a pretty bad way to play any of these titles.

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highlysuspect.agency•18 hours ago

avoid shipping those GPL'd DOSBox binaries with this one weird trick

lizard.tools•21 hours ago

this is peak streaming era. quibi was a better idea than this. goddamn.

syzygyrior.bsky.social•20 hours ago

now i wanna see someone run zork on a network switch

lizard.tools•20 hours ago

i did not try this beforehand, i literally blindly clicked the first link while recording. twenty seconds and i'm zorkin online.

biggun.bsky.social•17 hours ago

WITHOUT TEXT COMPRESSION EVEN

aughHGHGHHGHGGH

reki.gay•20 hours ago

how indecent

lizard.tools•20 hours ago

better than zorkin on xbox

reki.gay•20 hours ago

what will the kids think of next, zorkin on the xbox, zorkin online, zorkin in public???

porridge.bsky.social•20 hours ago

weren't there literally "streaming" text games on bbses in the 80s too, like legend of the red dragon

lizard.tools•20 hours ago

plus those allowed people dialing in from all sorts of machines to access games that might only have been available for more expensive personal pcs or even mainframes at the time

porridge.bsky.social•19 hours ago

that's the commonality with modern streaming I was thinking of when I called LORD "streaming". like on top of zork probably running on any piece of network equipment involved in streaming the video, people were already connecting to online services to play similar text games remotely 35+ years ago

lizard.tools•19 hours ago

yeah that's true.

granted, i'm fixating on zork for the bit because it's the most egregious example but literally any of these games can be played in a modern *browser* without even having to dl anything lmao

lizard.tools•20 hours ago

i would consider those much closer to browser games than game streaming in the modern day (e.g. text generated on a remote machine and rendered locally, often with multiplayer features that couldn't have been implemented in any other way, etc.)

luc-ienn.bsky.social•20 hours ago

This whole thing just reeks of “look! We did a games preservation! Look at us preserving games!”

nyxieneon.art•21 hours ago

I'm so out of touch (left IT years ago) but man we've really just hit "We've made these things so powerful and are going to use them in the stupidest most inefficient ways" havent we?

We're all Jeremy Clarkson with a Corvette Engine Blender.

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