Adam Thorton wrote:
It's wrong. ADVENT is 1972, or possibly a little bit later. But even
Advent isn't *really* what he's talking about: Adventure and RPG
are two distinct genres, although they certainly weren't even in the
mid 1980s--_The Book of Adventure Games_ and its sequel, from 1984
I and a colleague extended the PLI version of Adventure
to include a helium balloon and Davy Jones' Locker, among
other things. For me, it was more fun writing the code
that it was playing the game.
I still have hardcopy of the source code and the
database.
Richard Corak
On Dec 27, 2006, at 10:21 AM, Richard Corak wrote:
I and a colleague extended the PLI version of Adventure
to include a helium balloon and Davy Jones' Locker, among
other things. For me, it was more fun writing the code
that it was playing the game.
Have a look at
www.inform-fiction.org
http://armchairarcade.com/neo/node/1081
Surely, RPGs existed on our beloved mainframes before or around this
time
didn't they? It pre-dates me, but I've seen discussion about it here.
Maybe the author needs a little history lesson??? :-)
*little*? Great steaming hunks of history lesson,
On Dec 26, 2006, at 8:26 AM, Leland Lucius wrote:
http://armchairarcade.com/neo/node/1081
Surely, RPGs existed on our beloved mainframes before or around
this time
didn't they? It pre-dates me, but I've seen discussion about it here.
Maybe the author needs a little history lesson??? :-)
On Dec 26, 2006, at 9:10 AM, David Boyes wrote:
http://armchairarcade.com/neo/node/1081
Surely, RPGs existed on our beloved mainframes before or around this
time
didn't they? It pre-dates me, but I've seen discussion about it
here.
Maybe the author needs a little history lesson??? :-)
Although anyone who
thinks NES is the right platform for Wizardry is smoking crack.
Indeed. 3 drive 64K Apple II with a language card was the optimum
configuration. The third drive avoided all disk swapping during play
because it allowed the p-System file manager to mount all the data
volumes
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 10:10:41 -0500, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
http://armchairarcade.com/neo/node/1081
Surely, RPGs existed on our beloved mainframes before or around this
time
didn't they? It pre-dates me, but I've seen discussion about it here.
Maybe the author needs a
The DND game and the StarTrek game on
PLATO were both around in 1977. IIRC, the PLATO system I worked
with ran on a CDC 6600 that I think was physically in the Minneapolis/Saint
Paul area. The University of Nebraska was linked by a dedicated
leased line. There was one extremely obese guy I
