6 May
2005
6 May
'05
7:39 p.m.
Scott wrote:
and also Microsoft Adventure, which is the regular
'UNIX' adventure
game ('xyzzy' password, etc.) ported to the PC on a bootable diskette
(no DOS required). I knew it first as 'Microsoft Adventure' due to
early exposure to it on dad's PC. People from the UNIX culture would
obviously object to this name.
I don't see why. It's not fundamentally a "Unix game". It originated
on TOPS-10 on a DECsystem-10 (PDP-10 processor).
The Apple II edition of Microsoft Adventure was the first commercial
software I ever purchased, though I'd already almost completed the
original version on the DECsystem-10. I thought it was nice being able
to run it at home. At the time, the game cost almost two week's
take-home pay (part-time fast-food job). Soon followed by Zork II;
I'd already played Zork I on a friend's computer.
Eric