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| robotfindskitten.org v1600005.334b |
| Yet another zen simulation. |
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| Did you port rfk to UNIVAC? click here! | .[rfk)
| |:-[home)
| The POSIX Implementation |:-[rfk news)
| |:-[software)
| POSIX |:-[submit a port)
| |:-[screenshots)
| The Many Ports |:-[download)
| (in order of appearance) |:-[the source)
| |:-[lists)
| PalmOS |:-[devteam)
| Dreamcast |:-[sponsors)
| The rfk CGI |:-[contact info)
| Java # |`-[afterword)
| Gameboy Advance |`-[PLAY)
| Commodore 64 |
| Apple ][ |
| Inform |
| Atari 2600 |
| AmigaOS |
| OpenGL |
| QNX |
| Spectrum |
| PHP |
| Amtel AVR |
| 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+ |
| TI-86 |
| Wii |
| Lego NXT Mindstorm |
| Sega Master System |
| Web 2.0 |
| HTML5 |
| PHP (alt.) |
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| Other Appearances |
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| Secret Agent Clank (mini game) |
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| Other rfkiana |
| |
| rfksay |
| jasonfindsfleece |
| megahyperdeath |
| robotfindskitten: The Deltaur Initiative |
| robotfindskitten: the ultimate fanpage |
| robotfindskitten: the o'reilly factor |
| rfk still life by beth lerman |
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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] |
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| 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. |
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| PalmOS |
| |
| The original port, by Bridget Spitznagel. (GPL) |
| [download] [homepage] |
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| Dreamcast |
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| By Douglas R. Winslow III |
| [download] [homepage] |
| [bootble cd images] by Jeremy Penner |
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| The rfk CGI |
| |
| By Martin Pool |
| [download] [homepage] |
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| Java |
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| By Brian Enigma |
| [download] [homepage] |
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| Gameboy Advance |
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| By Ben Molitor. |
| [download] [homepage] |
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| Commodore 64 |
| |
| By Jeremy Penner |
| [download] [homepage] |
| |
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| Apple ][ |
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| By Jeremy Penner |
| [download] [homepage] |
| |
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| Inform |
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| By Dave Griffith |
| [download] [homepage] |
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| Atari 2600 |
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| By Jeremy Penner |
| [download] [homepage] |
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| 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 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] |
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| 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] |
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| 68k Macintosh |
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| 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] |
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| 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 |
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| [download] [homepage] |
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| 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] |
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| 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] |
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| Second Life |
| |
| This port was created because while there are |
| many cats in Second Life, none of them are |
| kitten. |
| |
| [download] [slurl] |
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| 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] |
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| 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] |
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| 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] |
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| TI-86 |
| |
| Owners of TI-86 calculators have long been |
| rendered green with envy as their friends |
| keep regaling them with incessant stories |
| of kitten-finding on their shiny TI-83+ |
| machines. Now the time to strike back has |
| finally come! Dust out your TI-86, and go, |
| find kitten! |
| |
| [download] [homepage] |
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| Wii |
| |
| robotfindsktiten comes to the Wii. Amongst many |
| controller options, you can control robot with the |
| Wii Balance Board for a truly immersive |
| kitten-seeking experience. |
| |
| [download] [homepage] |
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| Lego NXT Mindstorm |
| |
| Lego NXT Mindstorm is a programmable Lego brick. |
| With this port, you can play rfk on its LCD |
| screen using tachometers and touch sensors. robot |
| inside Robot! |
| |
| [download] [homepage] |
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| Sega Master System |
| |
| This is a blatantly unfaithful port of |
| robotfindskitten to the Sega Master System, |
| sharing no actual source code with the original. |
| The author hopes that all messages actually have |
| a chance of showing up. You will need a slightly |
| modified (the strings are too long for the stock |
| version) WLA-DX to compile the source code. |
| |
| [download] [homepage] |
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| Web 2.0 |
| |
| This is the first html+css+jquery port of RFK, and |
| the first online port playable by keyboard |
| commands! Now you can play rfk from anywhere with |
| a browser, a keyboard, and an internet connection. |
| |
| Play at robotfindskitten.org! |
| |
| [download] [homepage] |
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| HTML5 |
| |
| ...and robot did venture off into the cloud in |
| search of kitten. In that cloud he found a giant |
| canvas, filled with wonderful things, one of which |
| might be kitten. So robot searches still. This is |
| a JavaScript/HTML5 Canvas port of |
| robotfindskitten. |
| |
| Play at robotfindskitten.com! |
| |
| [download] [homepage] |
| |
| PHP (alt.) |
| |
| A PHP/HTML version aiming to deliver the same |
| experience than the Linux Console version. Easily |
| embeddable into a PHP application. |
| |
| [download] [homepage] |
| |
| -= Other Appearances: =- |
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| 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 |
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| [screenshots] |
| |
| -= Other rfkiana: =- |
| |
| rfksay: an ascii talker like cowsay |
| by Andrew Northern |
| [ download ] |
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| 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 ] |
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| |
| 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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| rfk still life by beth lerman: |
| "11" x 14". Oil and tempera on panel. 2011. A |
| gift for Sumana Harihareswara and Leonard |
| Richardson, creator of the 1997 computer game of |
| the same title. In the computer game, the player |
| guides Robot through an item-filled room until she |
| discovers the kitten. Amongst the items Robot can |
| potentially encounter (there are hundreds), there |
| is a "half eaten birthday cake with pink |
| frosting," "a lotus," and "lemon slices floating |
| in a punch bowl"." |
| [ link ] |
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