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Section 3 - Hobbies/Interests (museum)

The museum is east of the mezzanine. "A short well used carpet lines the large room. Pictures and text on the walls displaying a brief history of Devin. What his likes are and his hobbies. The lighting is dim here to set the mood. The few exhibits are separated by cubical walls that are spread out through the room. The room has a standard drop ceiling and some small light fixtures that seem to put out more heat then they do light. [The mezzanine] is back to the west."

The walls are scenery in the museum. The description is "Several pictures line the walls. Of note are several examples of Devin's photography and a small history of his use of computers which reads:[paragraph break]Devin started with computers when his parents purchased a [bold type]Commodore 64[roman type] system for the house. At the time there was not many programs available so Devin read the manual which was a nearly a BASIC programming language text book. Learning how to develop my own programs and a bit of 'hacking' other programs Devin found something he really liked.[paragraph break]A few years later an upgrade gave Devin the opportunity to use an IBM clone with DOS and Windows 3.1. This is where he found games like Doom, Myst, Kings Quest. And developed his love for adventure games. He also taught himself all about web sites.[paragraph break]Through out high school he continued his programming with pascal, PERL, C and eventually PHP. He would soak up a new programming language at a fast rate.[paragraph break]He took a job right out of the first year of college after learning Java. While working he found a few Sun computers and a revolution of possibilities past Windows was revealed. Falling in love with the Unix environment, he quickly learned everything he could about Linux, along with shell programming, and system administration.[paragraph break]After several years he then developed a love for Apple products when they released Mac OS X (because it was Unix based). Since then he has continued to pursue his learning to include Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, Objective C, and many more.".

Understand "wall" or "pictures" or "history" or "text" as the walls.

An exhibit is a kind of divider.

After printing the locale description of the museum:

print a list of dividers in the museum with the header "The Exhibits";

say "You can view each exhibit by typing EXAMINE <EXHIBIT NAME>.[line break]Or read a brief history by EXAMINE HISTORY."

The photography exhibit is an exhibit in the museum.

The description is "Devin enjoys taking pictures especially pictures of nature. To see his works please visit:[paragraph break][fixed letter spacing]http://tritarget.org/photography/[variable letter spacing][paragraph break]However, he also loves a more involved type of photography called 360 Panoramas or virtual tour. Using viewers the user can see a picture completely around the view point including up and down. You can see many examples of panoramas Devin has made at the same above address.".

Understand "photo" or "photos" as the photography exhibit.

[This allows us to use the enter and view style of displaying text (clear screen first)]

Instead of examining the photography exhibit, display the long message "[description]".

The interactive fiction exhibit is an exhibit in the museum.

The description is "Interactive Fiction is what you are experiencing here. It is that style of adventure games implemented in text. I love playing and developing new games. You can see all the Interactive Fiction games I've made at:[paragraph break][fixed letter spacing]http://tritarget.org/stories/[variable letter spacing]".

Understand "if" as the interactive fiction exhibit.

The popular culture exhibit is an exhibit in the museum.

The description is "A series of posters line the walls of this exhibit. The major categories are Favorite TV shows, Favorite Movies, and Music.[paragraph break]Favorite TV Shows: Star Trek (TOS, TNG, Voyager, DS9 and Enterprise), Firefly, Inspector Gadget, Get Smart, Dr. Who, South Park, Futurama, Power Puff Girls, MacGyver[line break]Favorite Movies: The Fifth Element, Serenity, The Boondock Saints, Goonies, Lilo & Stitch[line break]Music: Heavy Metal, Techno, Disco, Dance, Celtic/Irish, New Age Ambient, World".

Understand "tv" or "television" or "movie" or "movies" or "music" as the popular culture exhibit.

Understand "poster" or "posters" as a mistake ("Try examining the exhibits instead.").

The games exhibit is an exhibit in the museum.

The description is "Devin loves adventure games. His favorites of all time include: Zelda, Myst and the Zork series. He also had a good deal of interest in the classic Quake, Doom, and Duke Nukem 3D. He has interests in game creating especially the use of 3D mesh work like Blender 3D and LightWave."

Understand "game" or "video" or "videogame" or "videogames" as the games exhibit.