{"id":15223,"date":"2010-01-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2010\/01\/19\/the-hardest-part-of-writing-the-video-game-monty-pythons-complete-waste-of-time\/"},"modified":"2010-01-19T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T07:00:00","slug":"the-hardest-part-of-writing-the-video-game-monty-pythons-complete-waste-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20100119-00\/?p=15223","title":{"rendered":"The hardest part of writing the video game Monty Python&#039;s Complete Waste of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, I happened to have lunch with one of the programmers who worked on the video game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1887889000?tag=tholneth-20\"> <i>Monty Python&#8217;s Complete Waste of Time<\/i><\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventureclassicgaming.com\/index.php\/site\/reviews\/58\/\">read a review<\/a>). This program was notable in many ways, most geekily that it was brought on board the Mir space station by astronaut <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/foale.html\"> Michael Foale<\/a>.\n Anyway, during the course of lunch, I learned something unusual:\n &#8220;The hardest part of writing that program? Synchronizing the farts [sounds] to the video.&#8221;\n<b>Vaguely related<\/b>\n: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.office-watch.com\/t\/n.aspx?articleid=1329&amp;zoneid=12\"> How the Space Shuttle and International Space Station use Outlook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <b>Not really related<\/b>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NvlbAItBdK4\"> Trailer for IMAX Hubble 3D movie<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, I happened to have lunch with one of the programmers who worked on the video game Monty Python&#8217;s Complete Waste of Time (read a review). This program was notable in many ways, most geekily that it was brought on board the Mir space station by astronaut Michael Foale. Anyway, during the course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-15223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Many years ago, I happened to have lunch with one of the programmers who worked on the video game Monty Python&#8217;s Complete Waste of Time (read a review). This program was notable in many ways, most geekily that it was brought on board the Mir space station by astronaut Michael Foale. Anyway, during the course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}