Zork Online: The Ultimate in Gaming Nostalgia

Zork, but not as an applet

I've seen Infocom games offered before, but not running as the actual webpage. Since I know very little about web programming, how is this possible? Is some custom program running server side that "redraws" the page after each input?

It''s a form.
[code:1:6ce70ed8ee]<form name="prompt" action="index.php" method="post">&&<input class="prompt" type="text" name="inputPrompt" size="64" autocomplete="off">
</form>[/code:1:6ce70ed8ee]
PHP is - I''ll risk some wrath and flameage here - the Opensource/Free equivalent of ASP, so at the most basic level, yes, there''s a server side program/script/form handler that takes the input, processes it, and rewrites the page.
Not sure how they are tracking you, though.
Edit: There''s a cookie for the page, but it doesn''t seem to change when walking around or getting the leaflet. Hrm. And no hidden form fields. Maybe the cookie is just a ""user"" ID and they are storing your status on the server side. That''d work.

That''s kinda neat.

Yea gods the memory of my old TRS-80 and the hours enjoyed there.

PHP is - I''ll risk some wrath and flameage here - the Opensource/Free equivalent of ASP

Who would think this is flameage? VB is to ASP like Perl is to PHP. I always thought that''s what they were going for.