Re: Who Plotted This Map for Adventure Game

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From: Rich Alderson
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:03

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jmfbahciv <See....@aol.com> writes:

> Rich Alderson wrote:

>> It was octagons, with an up arrow on the right hand end of the north side
>> and a down arrow on the left hand end of the south side.  That was the map
>> of which I had an Nth generation copy--we got our copy of Adventure at
>> UChicago when one of the applications people at the Comp Center went to
>> Marlboro for classes; he was later the head of the ARTFL project.

> 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).

He didn't get it from Dick directly.  (Whatever makes you think Dick would have
anything to do with Adventure maps? ;-)  My friend Don got a Xerox copy of a
Xerox copy of a Xerox copy ... from someone in Educational Services.  My copy
was taken from his.

Dick worked for XKL for 5 years, 1991-1995, before Norma made him move back to
Colorado Springs.  Our offices were next door to one another.

-- 
Rich Alderson					  ne...@alderson.users.panix.com
      Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur,
	  omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus.
									--Galen

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