• Get Lamp is a documentary about interactive fiction (a genre that includes text adventures) filmed by computer historian Jason Scott of textfiles.com....
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    location, or room, the player is in; for example, "get lamp" only has an effect if there is a lamp present. There are dozens of rooms, each of which has...
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    The induction lamp, electrodeless lamp, or electrodeless induction lamp is a gas-discharge lamp in which an electric or magnetic field transfers the power...
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    The Documentary, and a 2010 documentary film about interactive fiction, GET LAMP. Scott lives in New York state. He was the co-owner of the late Twitter...
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    A sodium-vapor lamp is a gas-discharge lamp that uses sodium in an excited state to produce light at a characteristic wavelength near 589 nm. Two varieties...
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  • "get lamp" or "north") or more complex phrases (e.g., "put the lamp and sword in the case"). The command must fit the location's context (e.g., "get lamp"...
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    A fluorescent lamp, or fluorescent tube, is a low-pressure mercury-vapor gas-discharge lamp that uses fluorescence to produce visible light. An electric...
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    Aladdin (redirect from Spirit of the Lamp)
    returns; he gets his hands on the lamp by tricking Aladdin's wife (who is unaware of the lamp's importance) by offering to exchange "new lamps for old"....
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    also featured prominently in the 2010 interactive fiction documentary, GET LAMP. On June 24, 2014, Plotkin released the source code for several of his...
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    An incandescent light bulb, also known as an incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe, is an electric light that produces illumination by Joule heating...
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    The Davy lamp is a safety lamp used in flammable atmospheres, invented in 1815 by Sir Humphry Davy. It consists of a wick lamp with the flame enclosed...
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  • Adventure Gamers, website dedicated to the adventure game genre Cybertext Get Lamp, a documentary on interactive fiction List of graphic adventure games List...
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  • games used simple verb-noun parsers (allowing for simple phrases like "get lamp"), but Inglish allowed the player to type advanced sentences such as "ask...
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    the video is directed by documentarian Jason Scott Sadofsky, whose film GET LAMP is about the genre. Several years later, Meretzky joined Blue Fang Games...
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    Compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) examples A compact fluorescent lamp (CFL), also called compact fluorescent light, energy-saving light and compact fluorescent...
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  • (1982) – Directed by Steven Lisberger. Kevin Flynn, an arcade game designer, gets sucked into the video game world he created and has to fight his way back...
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    A neon lamp (also neon glow lamp) is a miniature gas-discharge lamp. The lamp typically consists of a small glass capsule that contains a mixture of neon...
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    icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of "The Lady with the Lamp" making rounds of wounded soldiers at night. Recent commentators have asserted...
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  • interactive fiction documentary, Get Lamp. She is married to her husband, Jack, a computational biologist. Get Lamp GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary...
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    Gas-discharge lamps are a family of artificial light sources that generate light by sending an electric discharge through an ionized gas, a plasma. Typically...
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  • writer, activist, and lawyer from Karnataka. She is best known for Heart Lamp, a selection of her short stories translated by Deepa Bhasthi, which won...
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    High-intensity discharge lamps (HID lamps) are a type of electrical gas-discharge lamp which produces light by means of an electric arc between tungsten...
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    light, lamp, or light bulb is an electrical device that produces light from electricity. It is the most common form of artificial lighting. Lamps usually...
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  • Tuas Lamp Post 1 is a cycling attraction in Singapore. It is the only lamp post in Singapore on which it is legal to paste stickers. This has led to it...
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    Petromax (redirect from Petromax lamp)
    pressurised kerosene lamp that uses a incandescent mantle. They are as synonymous with the paraffin lamp in Continental Europe as Tilley lamps are in Britain...
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  • for yourself." Simulated reality Societal collapse Scott, J. (2010). "Get Lamp" (Interview). Meretzky: "So that was my mission with A Mind Forever Voyaging...
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    The electric flash-lamp uses electric current to start flash powder burning, to provide a brief sudden burst of bright light. It was principally used for...
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  • Jeremy (September 29, 2010). "Looking back at the Infocom era: A review of Get Lamp". Ars Technica. Retrieved September 16, 2020. Walker, Brian (March 1993)...
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  • August 15, 2019. Amy Briggs on LinkedIn Interview footage for documentary Get Lamp Amy Ruth Briggs oral history conducted January 8, 2024 by John Esh at Macalester...
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    Ginni Thomas (redirect from Ginny Lamp)
    Virginia "Ginni" Thomas (née Lamp; born February 23, 1957) is an American lawyer and conservative activist. In 1987, she married Clarence Thomas, who became...
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