27 Jun
2002
27 Jun
'02
8:39 a.m.
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Chris wrote:
They even encouraged me to try writing my own text
adventure (never
finished it), and I suspect at some level, they are responsible for me
getting into writing fiction myself (IIRC, my first play was an
adaptation of one of his games)
Really? That's pretty cool. That's novel: a play being inspired by a
computer game :) What was it about?
I wrote at least a couple adventure games. They were fun, and pretty easy
once you got the hang of it. One was a demo running under CP/M for a
California Computer Systems S-100 machine that I got for free in 1989. A
bunch of them were liberated from a girl's school northeast of Sacramento
by a teacher there. He gave them away in a computer interfacing class I
was taking at a local community college. Me being the teenage geek
hacker, I wrote a simple adventure game and passed it out (on 8" disk no
less) to the others that got one of the machines.
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