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Re: Payphone Go

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Post by anthk »

With Asterisk and some voip client (even some modern phones) and some ZMachine modules you could play from Zork to tons of adventure games for the ZMachine at IFDB, from Anchorhead to Tristam Island.

Which is kinda the reverse of this, reusing phones to play a text adventure.

Re: Payphone Go

#52

Post by cyberax »

tadfisher wrote: post #45
analyte123 wrote: post #33

Please consider extending the game at least by a couple weeks! I’m very curious what percent of all California payphones could be captured with an extended game. I know the game’s phone number isn’t free but I’m sure it could be largely covered by donations. Without even going and playing the game yet, it’s already let me understand more of the local geography. Lots of small nursing homes, behavioral institutions, an…

Landline phone calls should just be free at this point. Put like 0.0001% of mobile profit into a fund and surely you can maintain the existing POTS payphone base. POTS-quality voice is like a rounding error in bandwidth, but we're saddled with POTS-era costs for connections.

It's not the traffic but the CO equipment and copper line maintenance.

Re: Payphone Go

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Post by K2h »

analyte123 wrote: post #33

Please consider extending the game at least by a couple weeks! I’m very curious what percent of all California payphones could be captured with an extended game. I know the game’s phone number isn’t free but I’m sure it could be largely covered by donations. Without even going and playing the game yet, it’s already let me understand more of the local geography. Lots of small nursing homes, behavioral institutions, an…

I agree, I need more time to score! extend the game!

Re: Payphone Go

#54

Post by flyinghamster »

drkrab wrote: post #47

In Denmark there are no payphones. Like none. The copper network is being decommissioned.

That's happening piecemeal in the US as well. Any "landline" phone service at this point will be coming from a box hooked up to your internet service, quite the flip from the old days of dialup internet.

Re: Payphone Go

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Post by lapetitejort »

I just visited the closest one to me during lunch. There was just a single dot in the middle of a huge county building. I had to walk through security to get there. I asked if there was a payphone around and the guard said no. Luckily someone else knew. One out of two phones didn't work. The other did, so now my best clean original joke can be heard by anyone.

There are three other phones in my city, two in a hospital, one in potentially a corrections facility? I'll stop by on my way hope.

Re: Payphone Go

#56

Post by kmoser »

> Every payphone has a unique phone number. When you call (888) 683-6697, I see the number you're calling from and match it in my database.

Has anybody tried to win by spoofing the caller ID? For science, of course.

Re: Payphone Go

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Post by apparent »

kmoser wrote: post #56

> Every payphone has a unique phone number. When you call (888) 683-6697, I see the number you're calling from and match it in my database. Has anybody tried to win by spoofing the caller ID? For science, of course.

I think it's harder to spoof toll free numbers. For example, you can't block caller ID in the same way. I'm sure it's still possible to spoof, but just might be a little harder.

Re: Payphone Go

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Post by golem14 »

flyinghamster wrote: post #54
drkrab wrote: post #47

In Denmark there are no payphones. Like none. The copper network is being decommissioned.

That's happening piecemeal in the US as well. Any "landline" phone service at this point will be coming from a box hooked up to your internet service, quite the flip from the old days of dialup internet.

The dismantling is usually faster in other countries, as Telcoms owning this equipment either are or were state owned monopolies. In the US, the payphones were probly owned and swapped and back and forth between myriad providers.

Kudos for pulling all these into one database

Re: Payphone Go

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Post by mx60s »

citizenpaul wrote: post #50

The recording left on this one is super weird and creepy like its from some ARG game which I guess is appropriate. The next night we ate whale, the next night we ate whale. https://walzr.com/payphone-go/?phone=592 Runner Up this one playing "Im at a payphone" song https://walzr.com/payphone-go/?phone=576

the whale thing is from a really great poem by Tao Lin. You can watch him perform the whole thing on youtube
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