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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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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.
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 on a web-site somewhere!
> http://www.eps.mcgill.ca/jargon/jargon.html#ADVENT
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> (I don't think the above link is to the canonical dict but merely to a
> shadow. Close enough though)
If we've piqued your interest, you can also look here
http://people.delphi.com/rickadams/adventure/index.html for more info 8?)
ROSCO
FUT o-t.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 (...) (24 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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