26 Oct
2012
26 Oct
'12
10:47 a.m.
Does anyone have the data set used to generate a colossal cave map like
this one? It would make a nice demo for my plotter. The site owner doesn't.
http://aquaporin4.com/
27 Oct
27 Oct
5:42 a.m.
On 26/10/2012 15:47, David Gesswein wrote:
Does anyone have the data set used to generate a
colossal cave map like
this one? It would make a nice demo for my plotter. The site owner doesn't.
http://aquaporin4.com/
Thats very nice. I suspect it was hand drawn with some vector drawing
tool kit and then plotted. I wrote a Hangman game in VB.2008 to demo
mine. It went down well with the kids at the Vintage Computing event I
attended.
I plan to re-write it in IBM1130 Fortran so I can demo it using the
IBM1130 emulator.
(Note I admit to stealing the idea from TNMOC, they run Hangman on the
an Elliot 803 and a real Calcomp. Now to have a real old style Calcomp,
that would be nice)
--
Dave Wade G4UGM
Illegitimi Non Carborundum
10:59 a.m.
On 10/27/2012 3:42 AM, Dave Wade wrote:
...
Thats very nice. I suspect it was hand drawn with some
vector drawing
tool kit and then plotted. I wrote a Hangman game in VB.2008 to demo
mine. It went down well with the kids at the Vintage Computing event I
attended.
I plan to re-write it in IBM1130 Fortran so I can demo it using the
IBM1130 emulator.
You better include the game. :)
(Note I admit to stealing the idea from TNMOC, they
run Hangman on the
an Elliot 803 and a real Calcomp. Now to have a real old style Calcomp,
that would be nice)
Ben.
1:55 p.m.
From: David Gesswein
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 7:47 AM
Does anyone have the data set used to generate a
colossal cave map like
this one? It would make a nice demo for my plotter. The site owner doesn't.
Aww, shoot. I was hoping that was going to be the *original* map drawn by
Don Woods using SUDS (the Stanford University Drawing System), a CAD program
created at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. (Remember when
computer-assisted design was an AI concept?)
This is clearly a map for a much later version. Oh, well.
Thanks,
Rich
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
(206) 342-2239
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2:13 p.m.
On 10/27/2012 10:55 AM, Rich Alderson wrote:
This is clearly a map for a much later version. Oh,
well.
That's funny--back when we first got Adventure, a bunch of us sat down
with the travel tables and drew a map by hand from them. I hadn't
realized that it had become a regular discipline.
--Chuck
8:34 p.m.
From: Eric Smith
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2012 1:39 PM
Rich Alderson wrote:
> I was hoping that was going to be the *original*
map drawn by
> Don Woods using SUDS (the Stanford University Drawing System),
Was that the map with octagon-like symbols for the
rooms?
That's the one. Octagons (N,NE,E,SE,S,SW,W,NW) with arrows on the
north and south edges to indicate up and down.
I first obtained a 5th-or-worse generation xerographic copy (highly
reduced, multiple pages) of it in 1977, when ADVENT infected the
UChicago DEC-20. I later saw a D- or E-sized single sheet rendering
hanging in Ralph Gorin's office in CERAS at LOTS (later outside his
office in Tresidder).
Ah, well.
Rich
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
(206) 342-2239
(206) 465-2916 cell
http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/
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