As you’ve likely already discovered (or you’re a bit clairvoyant… but not quite enough) you reach this dungeon via the Pirate’s Treasure doorway in the Galactic Museum and sail due West from the town on the other side.

I’ve marked where all of the doors, chests and hit point boxes are. I have not mapped the traps (visible or hidden). (X)amine is your friend, brave adventurers. Note: if I have a door labeled with an (x) that means you should examine the space to find a hidden room or passage.

Once you locate the compass, this dungeon really is pretty easy. Fun, but easy.

You will want to load up on lots of Magic Flames, by the way, especially for the lower levels. There are 8 total levels. I’ll post the others here shortly.

You can also find the mapped levels for 3 & 4, 5 & 6 and 7 & 8.

I drew this map of the interior of the Galactic Museum by hand for reference. I created a simple legend to help remember which portals were where.

Part of the gratification of these old games, in my opinion, is going through the paces of creating an accurate map. But if you’re impatient and want to get on with it, you may find this useful.

Everyone is making logging out a 2-click process to reduce log outs “All these services aim to be platforms, and step one is keeping users logged in.”

This website is dedicated to watching Internet Explorer 6 usage drop to less than 1% worldwide, so more websites can choose to drop support for Internet Explorer 6, saving hours of work for web developers.

Microsoft is currently showing 12% worldwide usage, 10 years after the product was launched. The largest offenders skewing that percentage are China (34%), South Korea (24.8%) and India (12.3%). Luckily, the USA is a tiny 2.9%.

However, if you cater to any of these asian audiences, you might throw this lovely banner on your site and beg them to upgrade.

Most startups do not have product problems.  The product works.  Most startups do not have design problems.  The product looks pretty. Most startups DO have customer acquisition problems: they lack a repeatable way to find a new person, convince them to use the product, and take their money.  Startups which do not have customer acquisition problems have *already won*: there is no longer a question of whether they will survive to exit, the only question is for how much.

Then, later in the post McKenzie writes:

Consider two startups trying to raise a Series A round:

• Startup A: good product, gigantic market, users like it, 10,000 users
• Startup B: good product, gigantic market, users like it, 200,000 users

Startup B is likely going to receive a higher valuation from investors because  it can demonstrate more traction and because the perceived risk is lower.  They’ve already removed a key risk factor — can we scale customer acquisition — from their investors.

Great article.

The full emulator can be found here, and it is all on github.

(Note: it is optimized for FF4; the audio doesn’t play well in Chrome or Firefox 3.X or less, and I haven’t gotten it to play yet.)

Exciting where this is all going.