Various utilities and resources for the Sinclair Spectrum computer game ‘Chaos’
gooey-blob-group/grab
Dumps all the messages from the ‘GooeyBlob’ Yahoo group into a single html and json file.
Usage: grab [--rehash]
Each page will be loaded every 10 seconds and appended to gooeyblob.html All the messages will by saved as gooeyblob.json
--rehash switch, reloads from gooeyblob.json to create gooeyblob.html
Requires OS X, Safari, hpricot, and json gems
ripper/lib/chaos.rb
Ruby library to obtain information from a spectrum snapshot with chaos loaded into memory.
ripper/chaos2json
Uses the Chaos ruby library to output all the data hidden in a snapshot to json.
Usage: chaos2json (requires chaos.sna in working directory)
If chaos.scr containing the loading screen is also located in the working
directory, then it will be appended to the json object.
spell-poker/poke_spells.rb
Pokes spells into a chaos snapshot (see source for examples).
chaos-font/chaos.otf
An open-type outline font based on the bitmap font used in the game.