Re: Crowther (pre-Woods) "Colossal Cave"

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From: jeff... Jeffrey Boulier
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 00:00

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In article <37F3A71A...@plano.net>,
Charles Richmond  <rich...@plano.net> wrote:
>I think it was called "Hacker".  In one of my old BYTE's, there
>is an ad for this game.  I heard somewhere that to get in, you
>have to control-C out of the login prompt.  Err, anyway, you
>have to get through some crack in the system...*not* do a regular
>login.  After that, I have *no* idea what the object of the game is.

I think it was actually a rather straightforward maze game. There's a
pretty interesting thread about it in old, old digests of comp.risks.
	
				Yours Truly,
				Jeff Boulier

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From: jeff...@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu (Jeffrey Boulier)
Subject: Re: Crowther (pre-Woods) "Colossal Cave"
Date: 1999/10/01
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