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Re: Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge

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Post by richmans » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 5:58 AM UTC

There was a problem in the second email: the handshake key was incorrect. I updated it!

Re: Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge

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Post by xr2k_enjoyer » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 8:57 AM UTC

richmans wrote: post #21

There was a problem in the second email: the handshake key was incorrect. I updated it!

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Re: Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge

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Post by xr2k_enjoyer » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 10:19 AM UTC

richmans wrote: post #21

There was a problem in the second email: the handshake key was incorrect. I updated it!

Hey, the server seems to go down when I send the correct route packet.

By the way, do you have a contact method other than comments on HN?

Re: Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge

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Post by jweather » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 12:44 PM UTC

jweather wrote: post #20

type 14 len bytes 1 payload len 6 payload YEEHAW Pretty sure I don't understand the crypto instructions - this is all I can get out of the spacecraft.

Bleah... the next clue was time-gated. Not my favorite game mechanic.

Re: Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge

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Post by richmans » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 12:53 PM UTC

jweather wrote: post #24

jweather wrote: post #20

type 14 len bytes 1 payload len 6 payload YEEHAW Pretty sure I don't understand the crypto instructions - this is all I can get out of the spacecraft.

Bleah... the next clue was time-gated. Not my favorite game mechanic.

It was actually a manual intervention. Working on automating that now :-)

Re: Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge

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Post by jweather » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 2:33 PM UTC

richmans wrote: post #25

jweather wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bleah... the next clue was time-gated. Not my favorite game mechanic.

It was actually a manual intervention. Working on automating that now :-)

While you're looking at that - my user user-81574ce4 appears to have another e-mail now but the system drops connection when I try to retrieve it.

Re: Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge

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Post by richmans » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 2:59 PM UTC

jweather wrote: post #26

richmans wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was actually a manual intervention. Working on automating that now :-)

While you're looking at that - my user user-81574ce4 appears to have another e-mail now but the system drops connection when I try to retrieve it.

Should be fixed

Re: Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge

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Post by xr2k_enjoyer » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 3:29 PM UTC

richmans wrote: post #27

jweather wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While you're looking at that - my user user-81574ce4 appears to have another e-mail now but the system drops connection when I try to retrieve it.

Should be fixed

Doesn't seem to be. Trying to read mail number 4 causes the same issue for me.

Re: Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge

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Post by jweather » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 4:15 PM UTC

richmans wrote: post #27

jweather wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While you're looking at that - my user user-81574ce4 appears to have another e-mail now but the system drops connection when I try to retrieve it.

Should be fixed

Cool... but the discord invite is invalid. :(

Re: Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge

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Post by neitsa » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 4:15 PM UTC

Thanks a lot! I love programming games. I'm just writing a simple client in python, and when sending a HELP packet, I'm receiving a packet with byte 0x82 as the header, which if I'm not mistaken is packet type 0x10 (0x82 >> 3 = 0x10), rather than 2. Am I missing something?

    Sending HELP packet (5 bytes):
    OFFS    DUMP                                                 ASCII
    0000    00 58 52 32 4B                                       .XR2K

    Receiving response...
    OFFS    DUMP                                                 ASCII
    0000    82 58 52 32 4B 96 23 53 - 50 41 43 45 20 54 45 52    .XR2K.#SPACE TER
    ...