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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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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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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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 Documentary, and a 2010 documentary film about interactive fiction, GET LAMP. Scott lives in Hopewell Junction, New York. He was the co-owner of the...
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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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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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"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 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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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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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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Incandescent light bulb (redirect from Incandescent lamp)
An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with a filament that is heated until it glows. The filament...
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Florence Nightingale (redirect from Lady with the Lamp)
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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A safety lamp is any of several types of lamp that provides illumination in places such as coal mines where the air may carry coal dust or a build-up of...
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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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herself. To learn more about the history of interactive fiction, see the Get Lamp documentary. Colossal Cave Adventure, by Will Crowther and Don Woods, was...
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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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(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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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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Street light (redirect from Street lamp)
A street light, light pole, lamp pole, lamppost, street lamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road or path...
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Ginni Thomas (redirect from Ginny Lamp)
Virginia "Ginni" Thomas (née Lamp; born February 23, 1957) is an American conservative activist. In 1987, she married Clarence Thomas, who became an associate...
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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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The Blue Lamp is a 1950 British police procedural film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Jack Warner as PC Dixon, Jimmy Hanley as newcomer PC Mitchell...
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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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2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) GET LAMP Raw Interviews Pretty Much Up on ascii.textfiles.com by Jason Scott (December...
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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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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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Automotive lighting (redirect from Center high-mounted stop lamp)
used fuelled lamps before the availability of electric lighting. The first Ford Model T used carbide lamps for headlights and oil lamps for tail lights...
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October 25. WKU's Lamp has built himself into one of nation's best O-linemen Lamp gets special moment in final game WKU has full trust in Lamp as one of nation's...
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