MINERVA: Episodic, Single-Player Half-Life 2
INCOMING TRANSMISSION! - posted by Cargo Cult on Sunday July 13 2008
I believe its contents may be important.
Unfortunately, it needs to be deciphered first.
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2. RPS steam chatroom is on the case
Posted by trioptimum at 8:25PM, Sunday July 13 2008
Polish? Gods damn it man! :)
3. curses
Posted by kast at 8:49PM, Sunday July 13 2008
Well I'm useless at this kind of thing and the Steam chat is empty. I'm just gonna sit and listen till you folks sort this all out.
5. dva, zero, jeden....
Posted by Sanjuro357 at 10:14PM, Sunday July 13 2008
The recording posted by personage is a very long series of numbers.
6. spoilers?
Posted by Pace at 10:50PM, Sunday July 13 2008
Perhaps we should have a brief moratorium on solutions/spoilers till anyone who wants to have a crack at this has a chance?
7. so far
Posted by Electric Dragon at 11:51PM, Sunday July 13 2008
Out of interest, how did you convert that into an mp3? Obviously the right choice, and explains why my attempts to get an image out of it weren't working. I have however got a very pretty looking histogram.
This link may be useful: http://www.meetpoland.com/learn-polish/numbers.html
8. Stating the obvious...
Posted by Freakoftheuniverse at 6:39AM, Monday July 14 2008
Well, the music at the start is the Mazurek Dąbrowskiego.
9. Electric Dragon
Posted by trioptimum at 7:15AM, Monday July 14 2008
Opened it in Audition (Audacity will do it too, I'm sure) as raw PCM audio data with these settings:
Sample rate: 8000
Mono
8-bit
8-bit mu-Law Compressed
Then saved it as an mp3.
10. ARGH- PAY-FOR-INTERNET-MACHINE WONT LET ME!
Posted by Sortie at 11:36AM, Monday July 14 2008
So yeah, Im in spain and this is a machine I have to pay for to use the Internet, and thats okay. But then they provide me with a spanish keyboard layout, a spanish OS and absolutely no possible way of visiting that URI Adam provided! Stupid security!
On the other hand, this just made Adam's puzzle even harder and funnier!
11. PCM?
Posted by isoma at 11:49AM, Monday July 14 2008
That's actually a valid "audio/basic" recording (gzipped, obviously) - on an old SparcStation it would play back just by writing it to /dev/audio
*goes to put Unix nerd cape on*
12. DTMF
Posted by Moi at 1:59PM, Monday July 14 2008
Has significance. Worked it out for myself.
Don't ignore it :)
13. Re: PCM?
Posted by jat at 2:07PM, Monday July 14 2008
Actually, that should work on any Unix-like system that supports OSS. This works on Linux:
gzip -cd transmission.gz > /dev/audio
If for some strange reason you're on Linux and have ALSA but not OSS, this also works:
gzip -cd transmission.gz | aplay -f MU_LAW
15. Discussion page
Posted by fuzz at 4:09PM, Monday July 14 2008
Post on the forum for discussions:
http://www.hylobatidae.org/minerva/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=230
16. Holy moly...
Posted by Pace at 6:06PM, Monday July 14 2008
Whoa, Moi wasn't kidding. Major message here. I won't spoil it just yet, but I'd encourage everyone to give it a crack. This is a puzzle with many layers, but we've already got a good start here, I'll give another hint in that forum thread. Holy moly...
17. Excellent!
Posted by Nightshade at 9:16AM, Tuesday July 15 2008
These problems are the reason why I love being an acolyte! Good work Adam!
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1. A Unix File?
Posted by Crane at 8:18PM, Sunday July 13 2008
Unix!? Gods damn it man!