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

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From: alde... Richard M. Alderson III
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 00:00
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In article <qh4sgeg1...@ruckus.brouhaha.com> Eric Smith
<eric-no-s...@brouhaha.com> writes:

>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.

Somewhere, I still have a 2-page XEROX-reduced copy  of a copy of a copy of a
.... for who knows how many iterations--given to me when I first went to work
for the UChicago Comp Center in 1977.

Ralph Gorin had a copy, on D-size paper, hanging on the wall outside his office
in Tresidder Union (after he moved over there from CERAS).  According to him,
it was SUDS output (the Stanford University Design System, licensed to DEC for
the SuperFoonly => KL10 project, which was how Dick Helliwell ended up at DEC),
which makes sense, since Don Woods was at SAIL, where SUDS was developed...

(Hey, the guys from Tech Sq. can't have *all* the bandwidth!)

Rich Alderson			Last LOTS Tops-20 Systems Programmer, 1984-1991
				Current maintainer, MIT TECO EMACS (v. 170)
last name @ XKL dot COM		Chief systems administrator, XKL LLC, 1998-now
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From: alde...@netcom12.netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: ADVENT map (was Re: Crowther (pre-Woods) "Colossal Cave")
Date: 1999/09/29
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