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Re: Now that we have a range of pictures...some thoughts...
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Fri, 21 Sep 2001 01:21:46 GMT
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In lugnet.harrypotter, Larry Pieniazek writes:

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.

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/jargon.html#ADVENT (start at the jargon
file for anything hackish..)

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

(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.

FUT o-t.fun, dunno why HP keeps getting included.

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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(...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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