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I could have seen it in the Japanese characters and it would have meant the same... "Cary Clark" <cary@corp.nospamwebtv.net> wrote in message news:GBov8u.JJG@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to 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 (...) (24 years ago, 12-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 (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) No, not terribly. I think of it as an early experiment in virtual reality. (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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 (...) (24 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, (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ooops that should be "All you bodge are belong to us" 8?( ROSCO (24 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) All your bodges are belong to us.... ROSCO (24 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) That's ok. You don't need no steekin bodges. <GD&R> James (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Interesting, We would use 'fudge' in this way also. But kludge is pronounced with a long u, like dude but not dud. (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Well, if you thought you'd seen enough AYBs, here's a novel one. Quick, before it disappears again: (URL) Jason J Railton P.S. This is not my doing. (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: LEGO Media International launches first television programme at MIPTV 2001
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(...) mega snip Wow... it's been so long since I've seen either of those shows, but I grew up on them. Danger Mouse kicks butt and Count Duckula is hilarious! (24 years ago, 8-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Nah! BOFH would have used a Ether killer so the machine would be no more, he'd probably call the server a WOMBAT. Unless BOFH likes LEGO, but then the jerk who pulled the plug would be no more... Are there backup tapes of lugnet.org so BOFH (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I think TLC's idea is backwards->reverse->opposite. Or, maybe they weren't thinking at all. (24 years ago, 7-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Or, if you reverse the whole phrase, 'Lego Live'. Some new kids Saturday morning show perhaps? :) Could be the name of some sort of exhibit though? Jason J Railton (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) AAA...AAARRGGGHH!! Melting! Melting! MEEE...EEELLLLLLLLTI...INNNGGG!!! My plans to take over the WORLD have been foiled AGAIN!!!...!!! (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) In the instruction manual for the LEGO Island PC game, there is a history of LEGO Island, in which the Infomaniac tells how he created the Brickster. They were best friends until one day when the Brickster turned against the Infomaniac. On (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Thanks for the nice compliment Dave, but I know what I'm..:-) Actually, typing a message is much more easy since I can review what I've just said, but I'm really bad especially while speaking..:-( By the way, all of you have a great share in (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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