So I hacked together this IRC bot to play oldschool text-based RPGs with multiple people in an IRC channel. The RPGs are pre-written and are run by a Z-Machine interpreter called Frotz, which runs on a server somewhere, and commands to Frotz are piped to stdin through a python program called pexpect.

I’m not going to say which channel this thing is is, because it’s hella insecure (Frotz uses multiple uses of strcpy(), wtf?!), but I will say that while looking into pexpect I found some old 1990s botnet C&C software when I totally wasn’t expecting it. Check out this file, hive.py, which comes with pexpect! So oldschool!

For some reason, this made me really happy.

♥Ⓐ