{"id":953,"date":"2013-02-19T14:02:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T19:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=953"},"modified":"2017-01-19T10:15:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T15:15:25","slug":"madmaze-ii-now-hosted-on-vintagecomputingcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/953\/madmaze-ii-now-hosted-on-vintagecomputingcom","title":{"rendered":"MadMaze-II Now Hosted on Vintagecomputing.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MadMaze-II<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2006, I wrote about a version of the classic Prodigy game MadMaze<\/a> that had been adapted for the web by Russell D. Brown, an electronics engineer based in Rome, New York.<\/p>\n

Just today, a commenter on that original post (thanks Joshua) let me know that Russell Brown passed away last year<\/a> on July 1st. That means his implementation of MadMaze-II is now offline.<\/p>\n

(Please note that the original author of MadMaze, Greg Costikyan<\/a>, is still alive and kicking as far as I know.)<\/p>\n

Luckily for all of us, I asked Russel Brown back in 2011 to share his MadMaze-II code with me in case his version of the game ever went down. He complied, and I have just now set up a fresh copy of his adaptation on this web server at the following address: https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/madmaze\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The game still requires Internet Explorer 5 or up, and it seems to work in IE 9 for me. Brown programmed the game in such a way that obfuscated its function to prevent cheating (he even incorporated a copy protection scheme), so at the moment I have no idea how to successfully modify it if players find any bugs. But if you encounter any problems, please feel free to let me know, and I’ll have a look.<\/p>\n

Have fun in the maze.<\/a> And may Russell Brown rest in peace.<\/p>\n

[ Update – 01\/18\/2017<\/strong>: Thanks to the work of Brandt Horrocks, MadMaze-II now works in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox web browsers. Read more about it here<\/a>.<\/em> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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