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Article #618108Re: Who Plotted This Map for Adventure Game
From: jmfbahciv
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 15:12
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 15:12
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Charles Richmond wrote: > 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??? I and the friend, who played the game with me, made the map with tinkertoys; but it was outside of DEC property. I didn't play the game when I was at work. I didn't see the computer-plotted map. /BAH
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