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In article <92...@ttidca.TTI.COM> ke...@ttidca.TTI.COM (Kevin Carothers) writes:
     I thought that a guy from Florida wrote the original "adventure"
     game in BASIC.  His name was "Scott Adams"  Even if this is
     (in)complete heresay I would be interested in knowing whatever
     happened to this guy.

As I remember it, Scott Adams was the first to write a text adventure
game for a microcomputer (the TRS-80 Model I), after being inspired by
the original FORTRAN Adventure, and being told that it couldn't be
done.  He wrote, in BASIC, a program to create a data file which
described an adventure game, along with another BASIC program to
interpret the data file and play the game.  Later it was all recoded
in assembler, and ported to other machines.  I believe he eventually
came out with around 15 games.

BYTE published an article quite a few years ago which detailed the
history of his games, and included a listing of the original BASIC
version of his adventure interpreter, along with the listing of one of
the early adventures.

BTW, this is all via my somewhat fuzzy memory, since it's been a
couple of years since I've seen the article.

I do recall quite vividly, however, playing the games on my brother's
Atari 800, after waiting around 20 minutes for them to load from
cassette tape.  Long live disk drives!!

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