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Old 09-01-2009, 12:38 PM   #26
jleslie
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I have a printout of my getting a perfect score on a printer terminal on Crowther and Wood's Adventure game, which was the original, unlike these new-fangled Zork rip-offs (which I never played, as I'd had enough text adventuring by then). I must confess to throwing away quite a bunch of line-printer paper (which the printer-terminal took, I think it was a DEC product, gotta love DEC :-) before getting the magic score. I also have the source for the game on paper-tape if anyone would find that useful...
:-)
Nicky - "plugh" and "xyzzy" are magic phrases you need in the game... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure
History: http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/a_history.html
http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/e_downloads.html - ahhh there's a 430 point version :-( tho PDP-10s pre-date me :-)
Wow - http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/b_cave.html didn't know it was based on a real cave!
John
(edit) P.S. went looking and found the paper tape and the source code (in Fortran) printed out, no sign of the perfect score, but I'll bet my house I haven't thrown it away :-)
P.P.S. I will admit to being over 30... plus it was the only time I ever used paper tape, which was pretty dead by then for most things.

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