Adventure. with the Colossal Cave, etc. was first written for the MULTICS machine and later ported to the GE/Honeywell 600/6000 line. It was around in the '60s & '70s and had quite a following. -mj- Jerry Davis wrote: > On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:02:13 -0700 > Darrin Chandler 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@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 > > >>-- >>Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD Users Group >>dwchandler@stilyagin.com | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ >>http://www.stilyagin.com/ | >>--------------------------------------------------- >>PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >>http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss