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Episode: 2567
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Title: HPR2567: Son of Hunky Punk
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2567/hpr2567.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-19 05:48:22
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This in HBR episode 2,567 titled Sun on Hunky Punk, it is hosted by Claudio Miranda and
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in about 4 minutes long and Karina Cleanflag.
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The summary is, I follow up on my frost episode by covering Sun on Hunky Punk, a men machine
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interpreter for Android.
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Hey everyone, this is Claudio M recording a follow-up episode to episode 2473, where I talked
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about Frots, which is an interpreter for those old tech adventure games from the 80s, like
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Zork and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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In this episode I'm going to talk about Sun of Hunky Punk, which is an Android application
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for playing these games.
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Now I was turned on to this by Brom, over on the Aghast Planet IRC channel on the free
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node network.
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And this is called Sun of Hunky Punk because it's a fork of the original Hunky Punk, and all
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of these I'll provide a link for in the show notes.
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You can actually grab Sun of Hunky Punk on Google Play or on Eftroid, which is how I got
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it.
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So once you've downloaded it and installed the application, if you open it you'll notice
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that there's a list of games already pre-installed.
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One of them, incidentally, is Adventure, which I covered in episode 2334.
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So when you select a game, you'll be presented initially with the details of what the story
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is all about.
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You'll see an image of what would have been the cover art back in the day, or it'll actually
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show you the screenshot of what the gameplay would be like on an old computer.
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You'll also see the title of the game, the author, or authors in terms of more than one,
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a summary of what the game is about, and you'll also see some other information like
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when it was published, the genre type, and some other information as well.
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At the very bottom you'll notice there's an open button, and touching that will throw
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you into the game.
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Now the nice thing about Sun of Hunky Punk is that right above the soft keyboard, you're
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given a list of pre-set commands that pertain to the game, and you can actually scroll through
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them.
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So this makes it very convenient when you want to type in a command, you don't have to
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type it in manually, you can just select that, and go on.
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Now I wanted to see if I could get Zork to run on this like I was able to on Frots.
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So Sun of Hunky Punk actually provides a folder called Interactive Fiction, and that's where
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all the pre-set games, the pre-installed games are located, and this is where you want
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to drop your own text adventure game if you have one.
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So what I did was I took my copy of Zork, I dumped it into that Interactive Fiction folder,
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launched Sun of Hunky Punk, and when I scrolled to the very bottom, I was happy to see Zork
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shown in the list.
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Selecting that gave me the details of the story, and on this one because I've already
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started a game, I have two buttons.
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One is the open button that I mentioned earlier, and the other is the restart button.
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In this instance, if you have the two buttons there at the bottom, open will drop you into
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the where you last left off in the game.
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And the restart button does just that.
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It restarts you back to the very beginning of the game as if you've never done it as
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if you're starting from new.
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Now the other feature that works well with this, which also worked with Frots, is that
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Sun of Hunky Punk, just like Frots, will recognize the save and restore commands that pertain
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to each game.
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So for example, I could touch open in Zork 1, and end up where I last left off in the
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game, but I can decide, you know what, I want to go back to a previous point.
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So I can use the restore command along with the name of the game that I saved, and that
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will restore the point where I saved, which is nice.
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So be sure to give Sun of Hunky Punk a try and let me know what you think in the comments.
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As far as iOS or even Windows Phone is concerned, I don't know if anything like this is available,
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but if you have any of those devices, be sure to check your respective app stores and
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let us know.
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And record an HPR episode about it, because HPR is in needed shows.
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Anyway, this has been ClaudioM.
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You can reach me on IRC, on the ACAST Planet channel, on the free node network, as ClaudioM.
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Or you can email me at ClaudioAtLineXpacement.com.
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