[wplug] OT: Down Memory Lane

beer beer at cmu.edu
Fri Oct 14 11:00:04 EDT 2005


I still have all my homemade maps for Zork, as well as my last game still saved on a real 'floppy' disk :)  

Whats worse...I still have 2 running C64 systems with daisy chainable floppy drives so some day I will go back and finish that damn game :)  


On Fri, October 14, 2005 10:47 am, Chris Ott said:
> 

> Christopher DeMarco wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 04:36:02PM -0600, Vance Kochenderfer wrote:
>> 
>>> West of House
>>> 
>>> You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a 
>>> boarded front door.
>>> 
>>> There is a small mailbox here.
>> 
>> XYZZY!
> 
> Since you're the second person who commented on this, I'll make a 
> correction: the above isn't Advent, it's Zork. I've played 4 different 
> versions of Advent and none has a mailbox, though I'll have to admit, it 
> really does look a lot like the opening screen to Advent and I had to look
> at the output closely to notice the difference.
> 
> On the same subject (and since I mentioned DG earlier), if you've ever 
> read "Soul of a New Machine", you'll see that Advent figures prominently 
> in DG's past. If fact DG's "shell" for their AOS operating system actually
> has an "XYZZY" command built in. When you type it, it says "Nothing
> happens." Hilarious.
> 
> Finally, as far as Infocom games go, my favorite was always "Leather 
> Goddesses of Phobos". I'm sorry, but you just can't beat a game that comes
> with 3D glasses and a scratch-n-sniff card. :-)
> 
> Chris
> 
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