OT: adventure

[Mark Jarvis]

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 <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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