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| The POSIX Implementation
|
| POSIX
|
| The Many Ports
| (in order of appearance)
|
| PalmOS
| Dreamcast
| The rfk CGI
| Java #
| Gameboy Advance
| Commodore 64
| Apple ][
| Inform
| Atari 2600
| AmigaOS
| OpenGL
| QNX
| Spectrum
| PHP
| Java MIDlet
| Gambas
| Flash
| Python
| Inform (C-64)
| Javascript
| Atari 7800
| CGI (2nd)
| PSP
| TI 44/9A
| Rockbox (music player)
| Nintendo DS
| 68k Macintosh
| PDCurses
| DEC Rainbow 100
| MIT Scratch
| Second Life
| Maemo
| Android
| Zune
| TI-83+
|
| Other Appearances
|
| Secret Agent Clank (mini game)
|
| Other rfkiana
|
| rfksay
| jasonfindsfleece
| megahyperdeath
| robotfindskitten: The Deltaur Initiative
| robotfindskitten: the ultimate fanpage
| robotfindskitten: the o'reilly factor
|
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|
| POSIX
|
| Not so much a port as it is the original. Not so
| much the original as it is a rewrite of the
| original. Trouble not yourself with this puzzle,
| but only find kitten. Now available in Debian
| GNU/Linux, and under the terms of the GPL.
|
| [download] [homepage]
|
| Ports and Implementations
|
| robotfindskitten is a compelling thing, and zen
| simulations in general are hard to find. In an
| attempt to spread robotfindskitten to all
| corners and eras of the computing globe, many
| devotees of The Way of the Robot and
| Kitten have taken it upon themselves to
| bring robotfindskitten-like enlightenment to
| others. We present them to you now.
|
|
| PalmOS
|
| The original port, by Bridget Spitznagel. (GPL)
| [download] [homepage]
|
| Dreamcast
|
| By Douglas R. Winslow III
| [download] [homepage]
| [bootble cd images] by Jeremy Penner
|
|
| The rfk CGI
|
| By Martin Pool
| [download] [homepage]
|
|
| Java
|
| By Brian Enigma
| [download] [homepage]
|
|
| Gameboy Advance
|
| By Ben Molitor.
| [download] [homepage]
|
|
| Commodore 64
|
| By Jeremy Penner
| [download] [homepage]
|
|
| Apple ][
|
| By Jeremy Penner
| [download] [homepage]
|
|
| Inform
|
| By Dave Griffith
| [download] [homepage]
|
|
| Atari 2600
|
| By Jeremy Penner
| [download] [homepage]
|
|
| AmigaOS
|
| By Peter Gordon. (Public Domain)
| [download] [homepage]
|
|
| OpenGL -- robotfindskitten3d
| By Peter Gordon. (GPL)
|
| rfk3d is currently in beta. Please try it out
| and poke it with sticks.
|
| [download] [homepage]
|
|
| QNX
| by Jeremy Penner
|
| [download] [homepage]
|
| Spectrum
| by Robert Tinsley
|
| The Sinclair ZX Spectrum range of personal
| computers were launched in 1982 and were massively
| successful in their home market (the UK) because
| of their low cost and (for the time) reasonable
| specs (colour graphics! well, sort of...) There
| were also a number of foreign clones (most notably
| the American Timex/Sinclair 2068.)
|
| In fact, "Sinclair's standing rose so high that
| in 1983 Margaret Thatcher personally presented a
| Spectrum to the Japanese Prime Minister as a
| symbol of British technological prowess."
| It is perhaps best remembered now for its rubber
| keyboard and as the home platform for Manic
| Miner and Jet Set Willy.
|
| But now those legendary games pale in comparison
| to robotfindskitten.
|
| [download] [homepage]
|
| PHP
| by Darkhorse
| [download] [homepage]
|
| Amtel AVR
| by Daniel Beer
|
| The Atmel AVR series of 8 bit microcontrollers are
| thumb sized microcontrollers which contain many
| features including a serial UART. I used the AVR's
| serial port to communicate out the board and game
| to an ANSIW terminal (HyperTerminal in this case)
| over a serial cable. Using these robotfindskitten
| AVR chips, a hardware robotfindskitten board could
| easily be made that would only need a dumb
| terminal to operate. For more information on the
| AVR chips, check out
| href="http://www.amtel.com/">http://www.atmel.com
| and
| http://www.avrfreaks.com.
|
| [download] [homepage]
|
| Java MIDlet -- rfk for your phone
| by Tim Allen
| This will allow you to play robotfindskitten
| on your properly equipped mobile phone!
| [ download ] [ homepage ]
|
| Gambas
| by Rob Kudla
| Gambas is a VB-style language for Linux.
| [download] [website]
|
| Flash
| by Christopher Widman
| [download] [website]
|
| Python
| by Leonard Richardson
| [download] [website]
|
|
| Inform (C-64)
| By John Charroux
|
| This is a version of the Inform port (.z5 relase
| 6) converted with the inf2d64 utility to
| Commodore 64 disk format.
|
| [download] [homepage]
|
| Javascript
| By Thom Curtis
|
| This is a Javascript version of robotfindskitten.
|
| [download] [homepage]
|
| Atari 7800
| By Thomas Mathys
|
| [download] [homepage]
|
| CGI
| By Harry J Mason
|
| A slick CGI robotfindskitten implementation!
|
| [download] [homepage]
|
| PSP
| By Trevor Wilson
|
| Take robotic kitten finding with you on the
| road -- it's portable!
|
| [download] [homepage]
|
| TI 99/4A
|
| It's for the Texas Instruments TI 99/4A
| computer! And it's written in TI BASIC!
|
| [download] [homepage]
|
| Rockbox Music Player Firmware
|
| "I ported rfk to Rockbox' plugin system
| and it is now committed to the Rockbox
| SVN. This basically just means that rfk is
| now included if you install Rockbox. Just
| go to Plugins > Games > Robotfindskitten
| ("It's not a game!" I hear you say, but I
| had to pick some category, and I think
| people would have missed the humour of
| putting it under apps)." -- rasher
|
| robotfindskitten is a *part* of the larger
| Rockbox app. The download link below links
| to sample rfk-relevant Rockbox source. The
| homepage link links to Rockbox itself.
|
| [download] [homepage]
|
| Nintendo DS
|
| Based on the PSP port by Trevor Wilson.
|
| [download] [homepage]
|
| 68k Macintosh
|
| 68k Macintosh port poorly written in Think
| Pascal for the 2008 RetroChallenge. Tested
| on a Mac SE running system 6.0.5, iMac
| running OS 9, vmac and BasiliskII.
| Bootable disk image for zero-effort vmac
| fun.
|
| [download] [homepage]
|
| PDCurses
|
| After having difficulty getting the POSIX port to
| compile in MinGW with PDCurses I went back to the
| original DOS version and translated my own. This
| one is pretty close to the original with only a
| few changes:
|
| * PDCurses is a C library, so I've changed the
| source to C (not a big deal because most of the
| code except the output didn't use any C++
| specific functionality, and the output got
| changed to PDCurses)
|
| * This version looks for an external
| messages.txt and loads from it. If it doesn't
| find messages.txt it has a short list of object
| descriptions (25) that it can use, tho the game
| loses quite a bit without that. It can support
| up to 1000 object descriptions.
|
| * Consistant with Curses, this version will
| play with any screen size, and that was a bit
| of an educational experience, let me tell you.
|
| * I've added my own shameless plug to the
| messages.txt and the source.
|
| -- Joseph Larson, Cymonsgames.com
|
| [download] [homepage]
|
| DEC Rainbow 100
|
| The Rainbow 100 is an 8088/Z80 personal computer
| built by Digital Equipment Corporation in the
| mid-80s. The system is MS-DOS compatible, but
| has a significantly different architecture and
| BIOS from the IBM PC. This port, based on the
| original DOS code, has been modified to use
| Rainbow console I/O routines, and it includes
| some Rainbow-specific double-height character
| fun.
|
| [download] [homepage]
|
| MIT Scratch
|
| Scratch is a visual programming environment
| targeted at teaching young people how to program
| in an easy and fun way. Programs are
| created by plugging together blocks similar to
| building a flowchart. robotfindskitten Scratch
| is an imaginative re-envisioning of the
| traditional rfk paradigm suitable for younger
| players and was originally written as a
| demonstration for the author's 10 year old son
| (who wants to be a game designer one day).
|
| No traditional source code is available, as
| Scratch stores each project as a single binary
| file which bundles all the "code" and graphics,
| sound etc. together. The "source" supplied here
| is a set of screenshots of the project showing
| each of the actions performed by each sprite.
| The best way to understand the code, such as it
| is, is to play with it in Scratch.
|
| [download] [play online]
|
| Second Life
|
| This port was created because while there are
| many cats in Second Life, none of them are
| kitten.
|
| [download] [slurl]
|
| Maemo
|
| Maemo is an operating system for the Nokia
| Internet Tablet line of handheld computers.
| robotfindskitten for Maemo allows robot to
| find kitten wherever you go.
|
| [download] [homepage]
|
| Android
|
| Android is the shinynew Linux+Java OS that's
| going to take the smartphone world by storm.
| This port, in its pocket-sized kitten-finding
| way, will help it - and you - succeed.
|
| [download] [homepage]
|
| Zune
|
| Zune just got a little more Zen
|
| robotfindskitten is now available in C# on
| Zune. You'll need Visual C# 2008 Express
| Edition (or better) with XNA Game Studio 3.1
| installed, but hey, is that really too much to
| ask when it comes to finding kitten?
|
| [download] [homepage]
|
| TI-83+
|
| Students the world-over have long endured long
| math class lectures. And they all desperately
| wonder one thing: where are the Zen simulations
| on my calculator? The situation has been
| rectified. Now students can enjoy
| robotfindskitten on the most popular graphing
| calculator line, the TI-83+.
|
| [download] [homepage]
|
|
|
| -= Other Appearances: =-
|
| Secret Agent Clank (mini game)
|
| "High Impact Games recently released a game called
| Secret Agent Clank for Sony PSP. The main
| character (Clank) is a robot, so I couldn't resist
| including a [robotfindskitten] mini-game. After
| beating the Secret Agent Clank game, you can play
| through again, keeping all of the stuff you
| collected. In this mode, you can find secret Alien
| Codes. If you find all of them, you unlock a
| secret treehouse level. In this level you can
| wander around and hit presents, and objects pop
| out, which may or may not be kittens. By the way,
| this is sort of Robot Finds Schrodinger's Kitten,
| since it is undetermined whether or not a given
| present contains Kitten until you open it." --
| Gerard Green, High Impact Games
|
| [screenshots]
|
| -= Other rfkiana: =-
|
| rfksay: an ascii talker like cowsay
| by Andrew Northern
| [ download ]
|
|
| jasonfindsfleece:
| by Gunther Schmidl
| An inform game. With apologies to Lionel
| Richardson.
| [ download ] [ homepage ]
|
|
| rfk-megahyperdeath: a patch for the .341
| tree which adds the possibility of MEGA. HYPER.
| DEATH! Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!
| by Ryan Finnie
| [ download ]
|
|
| robotfindskitten: The Deltaur Initiative:
| A 3D robotfindskitten shooter in development.
| by Kristofer Straub
| [screenshot]
|
|
| robotfindskitten: the ultimate fanpage!:
| A fan page dedicated to robotfindskitten.
| [ robotfindskitten fanpage ]
|
|
| robotfindskitten: the o'reilly factor:
| robotfindsprint -- Simon Carless in
| O'Reilly's Gaming Hacks.
| [ screenshot ]
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