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(...) One might draw a distinction, however, between "had a marked impact on a focus point of developing civilization" and "killed everything but those few animals that one guy could stuff into an apparently Tardis-like ark." 8^) Dave! (23 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh, come, come now. They didn't really mean that every SPECIES of animal went in the ark. Just every KIND. So there was plenty of room. And the kinds must have quick-evolved back into all the species... er, oops, I said a naughty word. There (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I see--two prokaryotes and two eukaryotes. *Now* I understand! What could I have been thinking?? (...) Ah, Zork! An all-time favorites! Dave! (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ? Verbose Maximum verbosity. ? Babel Fish. (computer meltdown ensues....) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh definitely (though I've never finished it, I've just always loved the idea from the very beginning when Infocom brought computers to Boskone to show off their nifty new game). These days Zork fits on your Palm Pilot. Several folks have (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) You know, I never actually played Zork. My pastiche paid homage to Zork's predecessor, ADVENT, which I *have* played on such machines as the UNIVAC 1100/80, the IBM 4341, and the Commodore PET. (URL) don't think the above link is to the (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Is that kind of like the saying, "What goes around, comes around?" :-) -- Cheers ... Geoffrey Hyde "Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:3AD3DF69.4444C9...ing.com... (...) animal (...) could I (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) It's kind of neat the caver connection to Advent. Crowther's wife was one of the people who participated in the exploration which connected Mammoth and Flint Ridge caves (and is what really won the cold war - at the time of the connection, (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Now that you mention it, I remember reading about that years and years ago, but I'd never seen anything from ADVENT first hand. Very cool stuff, though! Dave! (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I am having a little trouble with this concept... I keep visualising a 3277 display on a little caver skidplate and a REALLY long powercord and coax running back to some mainframe somewhere. Which is a silly image Other than that, with '70's (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) No, not terribly. I think of it as an early experiment in virtual reality. (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Actually it was originally called "Colossal cave" (by Willie Crowther). I only ever played it on a PDP 11/70 until I decided to learn Perl a couple of years ago - someday I'll get around to putting my Perl port of the original (350 pts) game (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) pts) (...) OK. No time like the present. You can find it at (URL) need advent.pl & advent.dat, which is the original data file unchanged. A couple of differences you should know about: 1. I implemented mixed case from the original upper case (...) (23 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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