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Article #618104Re: Who Plotted This Map for Adventure Game
From: jmfbahciv
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2018 15:30
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2018 15:30
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Charles Richmond wrote: > On 1/6/2018 9:14 AM, jmfbahciv wrote: >> > > [snip...] [snip...] [snip...] >> >> If he got it from DEC, the map was probably done by Dick Helliwell on >> the TOPS-20 machine run by the hardware development group. IIRC, they >> did use SUDS for developemnt but I never saw it run (so this may be >> a figment of a neuron). >> > > Mr. Rich Alderson discussed an Adventure map drawn by the SUDS pen > plotter system at DEC. ISTR that *you* had posted before... about a > *hand* drawn Adventure map where each room was a hexagon. ISTR that the > hexagons were drawn using a plastic template... done there at DEC. I don't recall this at all...telling it nor seeing it. The one I did tell was about using tinker toys to make a map; we used the round thingie with many holes to represent the mazes. > > Did I get the wrong idea from your previous post BAH??? > > I wonder if anyone knows where to find Dick Helliwell??? > /BAH
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