Frak!

Frak! is a 1980s computer game originally programmed in machine code by Orlando (aka Nick Pelling) for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron and published by his own 'Aardvark' software label in 1984. The game was noted for its "outstanding" graphics, with its characters being compared in one review to early Disney cartoons.

The game was ported to the Commodore 64 the following year by 'The B Team' (Jason Perkins, Anthony Clarke and Mark Rodgers). The BBC and Electron versions were included on the Superior Software compilation Play It Again Sam 4 in 1987 and re-issued in budget form by 'Alternative Software' in 1989.

Gameplay

Frak! is a side scrolling platform game in which the player controls a caveman named Trogg. In each level, Trogg's object is to find three keys located on the level. The platforms and ladders (replaced by logs, ropes and chains on later levels) constituting the level are laid out in a very tricky form. When Trogg steps off a platform, he does not fall straight down, but instead slides diagonally downwards. Added to the fact that long falls will kill Trogg, this calls for very skillful jumping among the platforms. Trogg exclaims "Frak!" (presumably an expletive) each time he dies. When the user manages to complete the three levels, they are returned to the first level with the screen display upside down. The game then repeats the same three stage sequence, following which it rotates 90 degrees and repeats again. Subsequent loops consist of video being displayed in black and white and rotated, and also the display being flashed on and off in three second intervals.

Frak

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Frak (expletive)

Frak or frack is a fictional version of "fuck" first used in the 1978-Battlestar Galactica television series. It continues to be used throughout different versions of the Battlestar Galactica franchise as a profanity in science fiction.

There are other uses, however: companies have adopted it as the name for commercial products, notably a computer game. It has also appeared in other television shows, including Eureka, The Big Bang Theory, Veronica Mars, 21 Jump Street, Better Off Ted, Warehouse 13, Chuck, 30 Rock, Babylon 5, Buffy Comics, Transformers: Prime, Castle, Space Ghost Coast To Coast, Helix, Dollhouse, Bones, The Flash and Arrow. It has also been used in the 2012 video game Transformers: Fall of Cybertron and Robot Chicken had a sketch on its "Rabbits on a Roller Coaster" episode parodying the reimagined 2004-Battlestar Galactica and its use of frak.

Etymology

"Frak" is a fictional censored version of "fuck" first used in the 1978 Battlestar Galactica series (with the spelling "frack"). In the "re-imagined" version, and subsequently in Caprica, it appears with greater frequency and with the revised spelling "frak", as the producers wanted to make it a four-letter word. In that framework it seems to function as a substitute for "fuck" in several different forms.

FRAK (engine)

FRAK engine is a JavaScript library/API for creating interactive 3D applications using WebGL. The purpose of the library is to provide an API for making easier developing 3D content for the web, games and other interactive applications. FRAK engine is developed by 3D Technologies R&D. Basic features are finished and the engine is used in some real projects, but there is still a lot of generalized testing to do. Editor is still under development.

FRAK engine features

Rendering

The rendering engine uses industry standard WebGL API what ensure cross-platform deployability.

Resource Management

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