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Article #618106Re: Who Plotted This Map for Adventure Game
From: jmfbahciv
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:48
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:48
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Rich Alderson wrote: > 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? ;-) <GRIN> The entire Marlboro development complex shut down the Friday Adventure showed up on the TOPS-10 system. Developers stayed at the plant from Friday to late Sunday when /CDO figured out how to get the last point using address break. Later that week /CDO wrote a file which ran the game with all the commands to get all the points. I heard about a map but never saw it. > My friend Don got a Xerox copy of a > Xerox copy of a Xerox copy ... from someone in Educational Services. hmmm...I wonder who...Nancy Kilty or Alan Frantz were -10 types. > 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. Ah, so that's where he went. I hope he had fun working there. He was one of the good guys in hardware. /BAH
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