Re: ADVENT map (was Re: Crowther (pre-Woods) "Colossal Cave")

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From: se... Peter Seebach
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 00:00

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In article <qh4sgeg1...@ruckus.brouhaha.com>,
Eric Smith  <eric-no-s...@brouhaha.com> wrote:
>Speaking of the classic Crowther-Woods 350 point game (as distinct from
>the zillion-odd later "enhanced" games), does anyone have a copy of the
>map that someone at DEC drew?  It had each room represented as an octogon
>with additional arrows sticking out of the left of the top face and the
>right of the bottom face for the up and down directions.  IIRC, it was
>actually given a DEC engineering drawing designation.

I had a 375-point version on an H89, which included a special "endgame"
puzzle.  I believe some Heath-related magazine had an issue with a map - and
I think it was a Heath-related magazine, because the map included the special
endgame room.

-s
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