OT: adventure

[Jerry Davis]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:02:13 -0700
Darrin Chandler <dwchandler at stilyagin.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 08:50:57PM -0700, Josh Coffman wrote:
> > Wow.. yep, going back to the 'good ole days'. I assume
> > plenty of remember the old Text Adventure games. I
> > think the one I used to play was colossal cave. I
> > don't remember whether that was on the Apple II,
> > Commodore, or something else.
> > 
> > I never did solve that darn game, and it has irked me
> > ever since.
> > 
> > http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/
> > 
> > ahh. memories.
> 
> I first played colossal cave on a mainframe. Later I played Zork on my
> first PC (not my first computer; that was a Sinclair ZX-80). I solved
> neither colossal cave nor Zork. Many hours of fun, though! About 10
> years ago I managed to wrangle the email address xyzzy at plover.com
> which I kept for many years. Eventually I gave it up after it became
> too spam-laden. :(

I worked at DEC from Feb 1980 to Jan 1992, and I corresponded with Don
Woods. The article didn't say, but I am pretty sure that Don also
worked at DEC in Massachusetts. I used to have a map and I also had
the actual source code (in Fortran IV for the PDP-11). I have neither
anymore, sorry.

Also, I had Zork on DOS back in the early 90's.

Jerry 

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