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James Powell <ja...@advancedsw.com> writes:

} > > alde...@netcom12.netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III) writes:
} > > > In article <qh4sgeg1...@ruckus.brouhaha.com> Eric Smith
} > > > <eric-no-s...@brouhaha.com> writes:
} > > > 
} > > > >Speaking of the classic Crowther-Woods 350 point game (as distinct from the
} > > > >zillion-odd later "enhanced" games), does anyone have a copy of the map that
} > > > >someone at DEC drew?  It had each room represented as an octogon with
} > > > >additional arrows sticking out of the left of the top face and the right of
} > > > >the bottom face for the up and down directions.  IIRC, it was actually given a
} > > > >DEC engineering drawing designation.
} > > > 
} > > > Somewhere, I still have a 2-page XEROX-reduced copy  of a copy of a copy of a
} > > > .... for who knows how many iterations--given to me when I first went to work
} > > > for the UChicago Comp Center in 1977.
} >
} > In article <23yadiw...@dragon.advancedsw.com>,
} > > James Powell  <ja...@advancedsw.com> wrote:
} > > Funny, I went to work at one of the the UChicago computing centers in
} > > 1987, and Adventure (and TOPS-10) still had a strong presence there.
} > >
} > > I was told about, and briefly played an extended ADVENT game that had
} > > been developed at the U of C, by Dave Long and Michele Medanski and
} > > others.  I've been trying to find a copy or a description of it on the
} > > ADVENT archive sites recently, but I've come up empty.  Does this ring
} > > any bells for you, Rich, or for anyone else in a.f.c?
}
} se...@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) writes:
} > The 550 point one?  I used to trade email with a guy involved with it;
} > actually, "Dave Long" sounds familiar.  Downside, this was before the Great
} > Conversion To MH, so I'd have to grovel through 40+MB of compressed messages
} > to find the email.  I think he worked at 3DO for a while.

Aha!  I have tracked this version down, at

http://people.delphi.com/rickadams/adventure/e_downloads.html

There are two games listed on this site that came out of the UChicago,
first a 501 point and then a 551 point, and Dave Long appears to have
been the principal.

Regarding Eric's request for a 350 point map, there is such a map at this site,
but it appears to be recent creation.  Now I'm curious about the DEC map too!

Thanks for your help,
  James

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