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Article #165085Re: ADVENT map (was Re: Crowther (pre-Woods) "Colossal Cave")
From: mle... Michael N. LeVine
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 00:00
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"THE DEC Profesional" magazine gave away maps at the <mumble><mumble> DECUS with a subscription form on the end. A credit block read -------------------- This Dungeon map was orignally drawn in January of 1979 by Steve Roy. Revisions to the original were made over the following months and final changes (magic-motion) added in March. Endgame is intentionally omitted. This drawing made January 1981. -------------------- In article <YubI3.1990$L85.1...@ptah.visi.com>, se...@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) wrote: > In article <qh4sgeg1...@ruckus.brouhaha.com>, > Eric Smith <eric-no-s...@brouhaha.com> wrote: > >Speaking of the classic Crowther-Woods 350 point game (as distinct from > >the zillion-odd later "enhanced" games), does anyone have a copy of the > >map that someone at DEC drew? It had each room represented as an octogon > >with additional arrows sticking out of the left of the top face and the > >right of the bottom face for the up and down directions. IIRC, it was > >actually given a DEC engineering drawing designation. > > I had a 375-point version on an H89, which included a special "endgame" > puzzle. I believe some Heath-related magazine had an issue with a map - and > I think it was a Heath-related magazine, because the map included the special > endgame room. > > -s -- Michael LeVine - mle...@ridgecrest.ca.us "Thirty days hath September, April, June and November. All the rest have thirty one except for Gypsy Rose Lee and every one knew what she had" - Mel Blanc
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From: mle...@ridgecrest.ca.us (Michael N. LeVine) Subject: Re: ADVENT map (was Re: Crowther (pre-Woods) "Colossal Cave") Date: 1999/09/28 Message-ID: <mlevine-2809992004300001@pm409.ridgenet.net> X-Deja-AN: 530566028 References: <7sccil$l67$1@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> <37EC356C.1A381ABA@plano.net> <X4OH3.224$4X3.3805@ord-read.news.verio.net> <qh4sgeg1lj.fsf_-_@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <YubI3.1990$L85.115282@ptah.visi.com> Organization: RidgeNet Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit