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Article #618107Re: Who Plotted This Map for Adventure Game
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 00:15
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 00:15
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On 1/11/2018 8:48 AM, jmfbahciv wrote: > 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. > But BAH... you *did* really see the Adventure map made from tinkertoys, right??? Or was that just a DEC rumor??? -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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