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

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From: mle... Michael N. LeVine
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
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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.
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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
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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
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