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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Richard Noeckel writes:
> > In lugnet.harrypotter, Matthew Gerber writes:
> > > In lugnet.harrypotter, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> > > all different, and now there's a dwarf throwing an ax...
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> > Actually, in the interest of lack of imagination, I let the eye-biting
> > monkey sit down at the keyboard, and...well, you know how he is...
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> O.k. so I'm familiar with the ‘Eye-bitin’ Monkey!’
> (Cause he’s a facet of my delusionary schizophrenic psyche.)
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> But what’s going on with this “ dwarf throwing an ax” who can “disappear
> into a cloud of greasy black smoke...”
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> What’s that?!?
Ah, the youth of the world... This is a reference to the granddaddy of all
computer RPG games: 'advent'. This game possibly predates your birth, it's a
text adventure and it first ran on mainframes, although it was ported
*everywhere* (1). The game Zork from Infocom supposedly is an outgrowth of
it, IIRC.
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/jargon.html#ADVENT (start at the jargon
file for anything hackish..)
http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/ (semioffical appearing, well indexed)
http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/a_history.html (good history)
http://www.gamespy.com/articles/january01/muds1/index4.shtm
http://members.nbci.com/Cybrnaut/advent/history.htm
(the above is by no means a complete reference, this game is in CompSci
folklore and lots of pages are out there)
So, what's this about eye biting monkeys? I need a little help on that one.
FUT o-t.fun, dunno why HP keeps getting included.
1 - I first played it on the Univac 1100/80 at MTU. Although I have also
played it on the Commodore PET, the TRS/80 Model I, the original IBM PC
(floppy only) and on various VAXen and VM systems.
++Lar
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| (...) Well, the tale of the ‘eye-bitin’ monkey’ may not have the illustrious past of 'advent,' but I'll be happy to direct you towards the path of mayhem. (URL) the bottom of this ^ post there is an outline of his adventures.] (...) BTW, I'm 21, is (...) (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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