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

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From: James Powell
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 00:00
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alde...@netcom12.netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III) writes:
> 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.
<snip>

Funny, I went to work at one of the the UChicago computing centers in
1987, and Adventure (and TOPS-10) still had a strong presence there.

I was told about, and briefly played an extended ADVENT game that had
been developed at the U of C, by Dave Long and Michele Medanski and
others.  I've been trying to find a copy or a description of it on the
ADVENT archive sites recently, but I've come up empty.  Does this ring
any bells for you, Rich, or for anyone else in a.f.c?

Thanks,
  James

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James Powell - Software Engineer/Reverse Engineering  -   ja...@advancedsw.com
               Advanced Software Technologies, Inc.
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From: James Powell <ja...@advancedsw.com>
Subject: Re: ADVENT map (was Re: Crowther (pre-Woods) "Colossal Cave")
Date: 1999/10/04
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