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| robotfindskitten.org v1600005.334b                  | 
| Just the robotown evening news.                     | 
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|  09.02.14 -- ALTERNATIVE PHP EDITION                | .[rfk) 
|                                                     |:-[home)
|  Coming to us all the way from France, Xavier       |:-[rfk news)   
|  Darmon has created a new PHP implementation!       |:-[software)
|  Thanks, Xavier!                                    |:-[submit a port)
|                                                     |:-[screenshots)
|                                                     |:-[download)
|  01.02.13 -- MAYAN APOCALYPSE EDITION               |:-[the source)
|                                                     |:-[lists)
|  Thanks to an injection of significant work,        |:-[devteam)
|  inspiration and enthusiasm by Eric S. Raymond, the |:-[sponsors)
|  long-lost source code rewrite by Alexey Toptygin,  |:-[contact info)
|  an NKI unification and purification project        |`-[afterword)
|  spearheaded by none other than Leonard Richardson  |`-[PLAY)
|  (and nearly doubling the number of "official" NKI  |              
|  primarily due to David Griffith's contributions),  |              
|  as well as lots of work by other members of the    |              
|  consortium, we are proud to announce that          |              
|  robotfindskitten has a new release, namely:        |              
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|  The Mayan Apocalypse Edition                       |              
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|  ... which was released on 12.21.2012 -- the end    |              
|  of the Mayan calendar.                             |              
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|  Much thanks to everyone involved.                  |              
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|  While we are normally humble and extremely         |              
|  self-effacing, preferring to let others have the   |              
|  credit for finding kitten, saving the world, etc., |              
|  the consortium would like to point out that while  |              
|  "correlation is not causation," we released a new  |              
|  version of robotfindskitten -- and the world did   |              
|  not end on as "predicted" by the Mayans.           |              
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|  So you owe us.                                     |              
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|  Now go! Find kitten!                               |              
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|  11.01.12 -- HTML5                                  |              
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|  And now, as though robot stepped into a time       |              
|  portal to the FUTURE, we have been presented with  |              
|  Michael Wooten's HTML5 robotfindskitten!           |              
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|  You've come a long way, robot!                     |              
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|  10.25.12 -- Web 2.0                                |              
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|  You knew it would happen! The 2012 rfk             |              
|  extravaganza took an unscheduled (that's           |              
|  pronounced un-shed-jeweled) hiatus (pronounce that |              
|  however you like) for the last... oh, 8 months.    |              
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|  Whoops!                                            |              
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|  In the meantime robotfindskitten HQ has moved      |              
|  approximately six hours up the Pacific coast so    |              
|  that we can be closer to Silicon Valley. We're     |              
|  trying to prepare for one of two possibilities --  |              
|  either we get VC and IPO for some mad ROI, or we   |              
|  prepare our teams of lawyers to go after Zynga for |              
|  their new social game "robotfindskittenVille".     |              
|  Time will tell.                                    |              
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|  However, while you wait for the news to break, we  |              
|  suggest you spend some time with Star Simpson's    |              
|  fabulous Web 2.0 version of robotfindskitten!      |              
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|  It's so fabulous, in fact, that we've decided to   |              
|  host it. (We apologize to our friends using lynx   |              
|  -- this version requires JavaScript to play.)      |              
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|  Thanks, Star!                                      |              
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|  02.1.12 -- Sega Master System                      |              
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|  Well, the NES may have beaten the SMS for market   |              
|  share in Japan and North America, but the Sega     |              
|  Master System found kitten first -- thanks to      |              
|  Ben "Greasemonkey" Russell.                        |              
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|  01.31.12 -- Lego NXT Mindstorm                     |              
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|  Aapo Rantalainen's master gave him an rfk koan to  |              
|  meditate upon: "What is robot inside Robot?" Aapo  |              
|  said nothing, but immediately left for the         |              
|  mountains. Seven years later, he returned with     |              
|  robotfindskitten ported to the Lego NXT Mindstorm  |              
|  controller! Thanks, Aapo!                          |              
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|  01.30.12 -- Nintendo Wii                           |              
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|  rfk extravaganza 2012 continues!                   |              
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|  Your new years resolution was to get more          |              
|  exercise, but exercise just seems so goal-oriented |              
|  and only reminds you of the ubiquity of suffering  |              
|  and the futility of chasing after airs. That is,   |              
|  it did, until today.  For robotfindskitten has     |              
|  been ported to the Nintendo Wii. And now, you can  |              
|  not only "play" robotfindskitten, you can "be"     |              
|  robot using the Wii Balance Board [Balance Board   |              
|  not included]! Imagine the scores of kilocalories  |              
|  you could burn, all the while fulfilling your      |              
|  destiny to find kitten.  See our software page for |              
|  more information.                                  |              
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|  Thanks, Chris!                                     |              
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|  01.28.12 -- TI-86                                  |              
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|  Dateline Finland!                                  |              
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|  Ever since Ander D'Nar ported rfk to the TI-83+    |              
|  line of graphing calculators, those math whizzes   |              
|  using the more advanced TI-86 have been            |              
|  discontinuous with envy! Well, thanks to the       |              
|  efforts of plucky super-genius and calculator      |              
|  artist Heikki Kallasjoki, now even users of the    |              
|  TI-86 can "solve for kitten!"                      |              
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|  Stay tuned for more new ports coming this week!    |              
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|  01.28.12 -- *reboot*                               |              
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|  Hello kitten fans!                                 |              
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|  I have some exciting news.                         |              
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|  While I was on my own lengthy personal journey     |              
|  of kitten finding, no less than 8 new ports have   |              
|  been submitted. Rather than putting them all in    |              
|  one announcement, I'm going to post them one at    |              
|  a time over the next several days.                 |              
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|  Stay tuned!                                        |              
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|  09.12.09 -- New Ports!                             |              
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|  We've got a mess of new ports for y'all. First,    |              
|  Steve Pomeroy has provided a port for Android.     |              
|  Now you can play rfk on your phone. But as if      |              
|  that weren't enough, Jonathan Moscardini           |              
|  thought it was necessary for you to be able to     |              
|  play rfk on your Zune -- say, when you were        |              
|  playing on your phone but then you got a call.     |              
|  Oh! But then, you needed to play some different    |              
|  music, what now? Fortunately, Ander D'Nar wrote    |              
|  an rfk for the TI-8x series of calculators! Now    |              
|  you can keep finding for kitten no matter what!    |              
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|  06.08.09 -- Maemo                                  |              
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|  Thomas Thurman has brought robotfindskitten to the |              
|  Nokia Internet Tablet world! Now robot will have   |              
|  no trouble finding kitten anywhere he goes. (Also, |              
|  I imagine robot playing the Nokia tune as he       |              
|  powers up.) Way to go, Thomas!                     |              
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|  12.02.08 -- Second Life                            |              
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|  Argent Stonecutter has brought Zen                 |              
|  simulation to the world of Second Life. We         |              
|  have some source files here to download,           |              
|  but of course the best way to see it is            |              
|  "in person". Thanks, Argent!                       |              
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|  11.18.08 -- MIT Scratch                            |              
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|  Derek Graham has brought us one of the most        |              
|  unique ports to date -- a version of rfk for       |              
|  the MIT Scratch visual programming                 |              
|  environment. I'll let Derek's blurb for his        |              
|  version speak for itself. Make sure that you       |              
|  check out the visual source code.                  |              
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|  Thanks, Derek! I hope kitten didn't "scratch"      |              
|  you too much during the making of this port!       |              
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|  10.02.08 -- DEC Rainbow 100                        |              
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|  Jeff Armstrong has modified the original DOS       |              
|  sourcecode for use with the exotic DEC             |              
|  Rainbow 100 BIOS and IO routines!                  |              
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|  Way to go, Jeff!                                   |              
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|  08.14.08 -- PDCurses                               |              
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|  Joseph Larson has updated the original DOS source  |              
|  with the PDCurses library and added an external    |              
|  NKI file! Thanks, Joe!                             |              
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|  07.29.08 -- two more                               |              
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|  Two more to add to the compendium! One is          |              
|  retro, and the other cutting edge!                 |              
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|  We've got a Mac 68k port and a mini game           |              
|  of RFK inside Secret Agent Clank for the           |              
|  PSP!                                               |              
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|  See our software page for more info.               |              
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|  Please also check out our updated submission       |              
|  guidelines here.                                   |              
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|  03.25.08 -- mobygames                              |              
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|  Thanks to Franz "Yobu" Dumrath, robotfindskitten   |              
|  is now part of the mobygames compendium!           |              
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|  http://www.mobygames.com/game/robotfindskitten     |              
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|  I like this description:                           |              
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|  "The game is a mindless yet meditative and (due    |              
|  to its idiosyncratic humour) quite fun lo-fi       |              
|  adventure-oid with some similarities to            |              
|  roguelikes (all-ASCII, single player, top-down     |              
|  randomized dungeon) and others [like] Progress     |              
|  Quest."                                            |              
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|  Thanks, Franz!                                     |              
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|  03.25.08 -- nintendo ds                            |              
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|  Not even the Nintendo DS, with its TWO             |              
|  SCREENS is safe from robot. See the                |              
|  software page for more info.                       |              
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|  new submission guidelines                          |              
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|  In an effort to streamline the                     |              
|  addition of ports to the rfk pantheon,             |              
|  please see our new submission                      |              
|  guidelines here.                                   |              
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|  03.25.08 -- two new ports                          |              
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|  It just wouldn't be robotfindskitten if news       |              
|  posts happened on any kind of regular basis.       |              
|  But fear not, we are still looking for             |              
|  kitten.                                            |              
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|  robot has found two new versions in the            |              
|  intervening two years:                             |              
|  * TI 99/4A                                         |              
|  * Rockbox iPod software                            |              
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|  ... and a new POSIX implementation to coincide     |              
|  with rfk finally getting a new Debian              |              
|  maintainer. It is is with great fanfare that       |              
|  we welcome Ryan Finnie as our new Debian           |              
|  maintainer, and thank the outgoing Neale           |              
|  Pickett for his years of service.                  |              
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|  01.22.06 -- two new ports                          |              
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|  We have two new implementations of rfk to          |              
|  serve you, the rfk-consuming public!               |              
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|  * A new CGI                                        |              
|  * PlayStation Portable!                            |              
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|  Our devteam page will be updated soon.             |              
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|  10.18.05 -- lots of news                           |              
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|  There's a lot of news around here -- first of      |              
|  all, we have a new POSIX code base that will       |              
|  be released soon as a tarball and a debian         |              
|  package. The new POSIX code allows for NKI         |              
|  to be in external flat files, rather than          |              
|  compiled in statically. The new is a rewrite       |              
|  by Alexey Toptygin, and the developers just        |              
|  voted to accept it yesterday.                      |              
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|  I've also been lax at keeping the news page        |              
|  updated -- since last year we also added           |              
|  Inform-C64, Javascript, and Atari 7800. See        |              
|  our software page for more info.                   |              
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|  11.30.04 -- fanfic                                 |              
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|  rfk fan fiction                                    |              
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|  10.17.04 -- python!                                |              
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|  Wow! leonardr, long rumoured to be the author      |              
|  of the book of lost kittens, has blessed us        |              
|  with two new things:                               |              
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|  python robotfindskitten and,                       |              
|  The Ultimate robotfindskitten fan site!            |              
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|  10.17.04 -- big updates                            |              
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|  Many new updates in the software section,          |              
|  including:                                         |              
|  rfk for the AmtelAVR, Flash, and PHP, and new      |              
|  rfkiana such as 'jasonfindsfleece' and             |              
|  'rfk-megahyperdeath'! Wow! Also, rfk is now        |              
|  in ports! Just use ports!                          |              
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|  4.01.03 -- rfk for Z-80 Spectrum                   |              
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|  Finally the day has come that you've long          |              
|  awaited -- robotfindskitten for your               |              
|  Spectrum Personal Computer! And this is            |              
|  not an April Fools joke, either! Click             |              
|  here for more info.                                |              
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|  2.08.03 -- robotfindskitten QNX                    |              
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|  robotfindskitten has been ported to QNX by the     |              
|  indomitable Jeremy Penner!                         |              
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|  1.30.03 -- robotfindskitten3d                      |              
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|  robotfindskitten has morphed into three            |              
|  mind-bending dimensions! Check out Peter           |              
|  Gordon's robotfindskitten3d.                       |              
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|  1.28.03 -- many, many new versions                 |              
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|  Yep, leonardr was right... well, actually it was   |              
|  the talk about a robotfindskitten port for QNX     |              
|  that really broke the camels back. But the         |              
|  point is, there are a LOT of new versions of       |              
|  rfk that have not been getting the press they      |              
|  deserve. These include: Java, Commodore 64,        |              
|  Apple ][, AmigaOS, Inform as well as the           |              
|  usual suspects, POSIX, PalmOS, Dreamcast, and      |              
|  the CGI implementation. Work has begun on the      |              
|  Atari 2600 version, and shady voices speak of      |              
|  a TRS-80 edition. See most of this and more        |              
|  at our software page.                              |              
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|  1.27.03 -- robotfindskitten.org overhaul           |              
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|  We're doing an overhaul of the site to include     |              
|  all the many ports that have come out in the       |              
|  past... ahem... two years. Sorry folks.            |              
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|  Hopefully this will also engender a new POSIX      |              
|  release to coincide with the freshening of rfk,    |              
|  and a few new ports on the horizon.                |              
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|  Possible plans include an inclusive                |              
|  robotfindskitten .iso image.                       |              
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|  Stay tuned!                                        |              
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