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Re: Now that we have a range of pictures...some thoughts...
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Fri, 21 Sep 2001 01:21:46 GMT
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In lugnet.harrypotter, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> 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.
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> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/jargon.html#ADVENT (start at the jargon
> file for anything hackish..)
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> 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
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> (the above is by no means a complete reference, this game is in CompSci
> folklore and lots of pages are out there)
My own contribution is at http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/RoscoHead/etc/
(port, not history).
> So, what's this about eye biting monkeys? I need a little help on that one.
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> FUT o-t.fun, dunno why HP keeps getting included.
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> 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.
I've only played it on PDP 11/70, IBM PC, and Sun workstation 8?(
ROSCO
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