Rokz

Show HN: Rokz: a browser port of a 1990 ASCII dungeon crawler

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For those younger than me, Kroz was Apogee's first game, a text-mode dungeon crawler from 1987. Apogee released the Turbo Pascal source under GPL in 2009.I ported the 1990 episode (Lost Adventures of Kroz) to the browser. No dependencies typescript.Some interesting tidbids I learned:The game's clock is its sound :-)Turbo Pascal's delay() blocks, and the sound effects are built out of delays, so a footstep is an 8 ms tone, 120 ms of silence, another 8 ms tone. That silence is the turn. You can't outrun Kroz by mashing keys because every move costs the length of its own beep. In the port a square-wave oscillator reproduces this (no samples etc), and playing a sound returns its duration whether

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