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Article #165094Re: ADVENT map (was Re: Crowther (pre-Woods) "Colossal Cave")
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Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 00:00
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In article <23yadiw...@dragon.advancedsw.com>, James Powell <ja...@advancedsw.com> wrote: > >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. ><snip> > >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. UofC ran TOPS-10? I thought they were a -20 site. <snip> /BAH Subtract a hundred and four for e-mail.
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From: jmfb...@aol.com Subject: Re: ADVENT map (was Re: Crowther (pre-Woods) "Colossal Cave") Date: 1999/10/05 Message-ID: <7tcn2n$br2$2@autumn.news.rcn.net> X-Deja-AN: 533026571 References: <7sccil$l67$1@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> <37EACCE2.95AB5BA@plano.net> <anEG3.462$lq3.58345@ptah.visi.com> <btomlin-2409992235520001@atuin.bruce> <37ec6a9c.1172978@news.demon.co.uk> <37EC356C.1A381ABA@plano.net> <X4OH3.224$4X3.3805@ord-read.news.verio.net> <qh4sgeg1lj.fsf_-_@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <ALDERSON.99Sep29001513@netcom12.netcom.com> <23yadiwt9k.fsf@dragon.advancedsw.com> X-Complaints-To: ab...@rcn.com X-Trace: qIERkzhigLKINOs879jRKIp7Jl2v4Lgr0Kd91fr6vDs= Organization: UltraNet Communications, Inc. NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Oct 1999 11:23:03 GMT Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit