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(...) That's an interesting prepositional conundrum. Technically, in both UK and US English, it's "on sale" just to indicate that something is now available from a supplier that was not available at first. But "for sale" seems to be used as (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.basic, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) (URL) (you'll need advent.pl and advent.dat, which is unchanged from the original). You'll also probably need an antiquated version of Perl - I wrote that on an old Sun box, running Perl 4 point something. ROSCO (23 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Scott Adams created (or licensed) a set of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text-based adventure games that were not quite as humorous as the books and not quite as good as Zork or Colossal Cave. Mainly because these games had a strict (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I may have missed the boat on Scott Adams, but the only text-ish adventures of his that I ever played were those Marvel Comics "Questprobe" games, which I found, let us say, disappointing. Were there other good ones that I didn't get to play? (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Text-based Adventures
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(...) This works especially nicely when there's multiple ways to solve the various problems -- if, instead of carrying water in a jar one can trick the sky king into making it rain, and instead of keeping the barefoot elves out one can give them (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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