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Article #618099Re: Who Plotted This Map for Adventure Game
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 21:13
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 21:13
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On 1/2/2018 8:05 PM, Rich Alderson wrote: > Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> writes: > >> Okay, okay... maybe I asked this before on <a.f.c.>, but it must have >> been quite a while ago. > >> The following map for Colossal Cave Adventure was dredged up from >> somewhere on the internet. It was obviously done with a pen plotter. >> So does anyone know who plotted it and where??? > >> https://tinyurl.com/ycjwvlc8 > > Hunh. That's a new one on me. I was expecting the map done using SUDS (the > Stanford University Drawing System) at SAIL. I had a multi-generation > xerographic copy that came to UChicago from DEC; imagine my delighted surprise > on encountering a full-sized (D- or E-paper from a plotter roll) posted in the > office of the Director of LOTS when I went to work there at Stanford several > years later. > You must mean Ralph E. Gorin, when he was head of LOTS. ISTM you did mention this in passing... in a previous <a.f.c.> post. If *I* was *not* so absentminded... I should be able to remember details! :-( I've heard of other "lost" maps for Adventure... including one more map done on a pen plotter... done by a guy in England (Mike Arnautov) who also lost his map *and* the source data. Also I think BAH once mentioned of a map that floated around DEC... drawn with hexagons for rooms. The hexagons were drawn using a plastic graphics template. No one seems to have a copy of this map anymore... -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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