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(...) Wasteland and Heroes of Might and Magic. I didn't work on the original Bard's Tale except for conversions, so I don't count that one. Bruce (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) So did any make it? Frank (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) any of the games I worked on made it into the hall of fame. :-) There was the Scott Adams abbreviated version around that time. Bruce (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yup, in high school, we were given a box of punched cards and if the program couldn't be written with the finite cards huddled in that box, then there was something wrong with you. I know that to be true, because the teacher told us so. Bruce (...) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Assuming the TI-83 has a reasonable way to input text, I would say theoretically yes. It seems to use the same Z-80 processor that the TRS-80 used, and appears to have enough RAM. Some models come with Flash ROM, which if useable for user (...) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Did that 'xyzzy' have anything to do with the 'xyzzy' BITNET chat program (It was kinda like 'talk' on UNIX but not really,) I remember using on the VAX at my university oh way back when??? -Kyle (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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I just remembered that in junior high "frotz grue" was funny. (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) xyzzy doesn't work, fool! Before there was Zork, there was Colossal Cave. 'xyzzy' only works in Colossal Cave. Both programs were named 'adventure' at one time, though Zork also went by the name 'dungeon'. There were family resemblances: you (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) In the Before Time of Long Long Ago, computers rarely used graphics (we're talking 1970's). Most things were text. Computers simply couldn't handle complex graphics in a timely sense, and often, because storage was so expensive back then, (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I don't! : ) Imagine all the news we can get into a half hour compared to 20 years ago! Why I bet in 20 years '60 minutes' will be down to 2! (...) You bet it is : ) (...) Yeah, but you know the answer already. Of course, d sounds about right (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Thanks for the info guys. But not being one who usually gets into games and the like, Is zork a kind of game that some people put on their TI-83 calculators, or am I way off on that one? Hasta La Vista, Sean P.S About that xyzzy command, does fool (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) (rubs chin) possibly... : ) (...) Lucky. But at least you had the bus! I had to walk the whole way! oh, and slipping on black ice may be fun in a sled, but when your backpack is really heavy and you slip, and fall on your face, and then try to (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) A-heehee! ...Hey wait, are you saying I'm old?? ;o (...) Yeah, that was basically what I had, except there was a yellow school bus mixed in there somewhere too. As for the ice, that added to the fun. My parent's driveway is about 900 feet long (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) The original Zork also circulates. It's substantially identical to the commercial versions, but fine details were edited, just as they were edited between the early microcomputer editions and the definitive 1983 releases. (bugs and all: 'who (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) (URL) one weird looking URL, but go check it out...) Zork, while not the first text adventure game (Interactive Fiction as they call it these days), was one of the first to really implement an extensive parser. Here's another link: (URL) if (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yep, keyboard : ) (...) ahhh. But I see you have just used a keyboard, eh? : ) (...) What in the I-can't-use-the-word is Zork? Old-timers game I'm sure : ) Hasta La Vista, Sean P.S No harm meant by Old-timers, but its the truth! (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hey, I *technically* used to have to do that back in Elementary School! (ah those were the days, why I remembe... Wait a sec, I'm starting to sound like you guys! : )) You see, we lived at the top of the hill, so you walked downhill halfway, (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) (with fake Irish accent) It all comes down to the little people, doesn't it? : ) Hasta La Vista, Sean (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) No, we have lockers. The fact of them always opening and closing is another matter though... Hasta La Vista, Sean (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) The key element to the old walking-to-school-in-snow story is that it also involved going uphill *both* ways. ...Something that I *did* have to do when I was younger... As for backpacks, I was one of the dorky kids who realized very early on (...) (22 years ago, 6-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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