10 Aug
2010
10 Aug
'10
5:46 a.m.
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Ben wrote:
Well I got "THE LAMP". Now to find the
cave... and buy the proper
9 pin null modem cable if they still make them. I can't keep stealing
from the PC here.
I am just finding playing ADVENTURE on the PDP-8 (SBC6120)
with a IDE drive just playable for a text game. Did most of the
people play ADVENTURE on a classic machine or wait for PC version
or clone of the game. I remember playing a similar game on the COCO II
but I think it was from Cassette rather than mini-floppy.
Well, I am far from an expert.
I played it a few times on terminals, with no real idea of what (or WHO)
was at the other end of the connection.
(Isn't that the "reverse Turing Test"? where you see whether a human can
convince the party at the other end of the line that it is a machine?)
Then MICROS~1 put out a licensed version of Crowther and Wood's
Adventure, on TRS80 diskette.
It was copy-protected, and some people literally wore through some tracks
of the disk (such as at the 2" slit, or at the snake, or at one of the
mazes)
Later, Scott Adams created his own version of the same thing, and came out
with dozens? of different games with the same program.
He also tried to get Randy Cook to finish VTOS (TRS-DOS) 4.0
Getting Randy Cook to finish ANY project was extremely difficult.
When you get REALLY stuck, speak up and we'll sell you hints.