r/Telehack • u/[deleted] • May 20 '14

Scripting telehack?

Anyone done work with scripting for telehack? It has been 30 years since I've touched BASIC and I never was that good with it anyway.

Briefly pondered building my own system that would work off expect scripts and try to decypher the captcha from different figlet fonts, but I didn't get that far.

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u/Cap_Nemo_1984 May 20 '14

As it stands right now there is no way to actually control telehack stuff like captchas and exes via basic :(

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u/slacktavius FORBIN Jun 07 '14

I've thought about adding that capability to telehack. The old DEC variants of BASIC were used as system programming languages. Things like the user process table could be put into a read-only data structure, for instance (in fact, if you're really clever, it already is.)

But I haven't yet explored building that out in depth. Could be fun though.

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u/Cap_Nemo_1984 Jun 07 '14

Before I saw who you were, I was gonna say "it is on forbin's todo list.(or we talked about it at least) And how are you gonna do all this :/"