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From: j... John Kallen
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1990 01:49

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In article <90024.134216DSB100@PSUVM.BITNET> DSB100@PSUVM.BITNET (David Barr) writes:
>That's strange.. PLUGH was the 'magic' word in one of the origional
>adventure games, Pyramid 2000, written for the TRS-80 model I
>It wasn't really all that magical.. it just rearranged the directions
>so that north was actually east.. etc.. Thereby confusing the user.

Pyramid 2000 was my very first adventure game. I remember being very
disappointed when I played ADVENT for the first time (on a *real*
system, a Micromation multiple-CPU MP/M machine with *5* Megs of
winchester!) and realized that Pyramid was but a shrunken-down
replica of ADVENT.

I was frustrated by Pyramid, so I did a pass with T-BUG. Commands
(like PLUGH) showed up, but the text messages were compressed to make
it fit into the massive 16K of RAM my TRS-80 had. Boy, those were
impressive machines....

>| David Barr           |  I did! I did! I did saw a puddy tat!!    |
>| DSB...@psuvm.psu.edu |  Where's the kaboom? There was supposed   |
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 | |   |   |    |\ | |   /|\ | John K{llen         "God hates me. *That's* 
 | |\ \|/ \|  * |/ | |/|  |  | PoBox 11215          what it is." "Hate Him 
 | |\ /|\  |\ * |\ |   |  |  | Stanford CA 94309    back; it works for me."
_|_|___|___|____|_\|___|__|__|_jkl@csli.stanford.edu___________________________

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From: j...@csli.Stanford.EDU (John Kallen)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: XYZZY
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Date: 26 Jan 90 01:49:58 GMT
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