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From: bill@hp-pcd.UUCP (Bill Frolik)
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Subject: Re: zork like game for HP 3000 - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 19-Aug-83 03:32:53 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 19 03:32:53 1983
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#R:utah-cs:-180100:hp-pcd:4200004:000:1147
hp-pcd!bill    Aug 18 13:36:00 1983

Heard of it?  We wrote it!
It's called Warp, and has been floating around HP for about 2 years now.
After spending countless hours playing Adventure, Zork, FisK, and Mansion
a friend and I here at HP Corvallis decided we could do one better.
We put together an enhanced Zork-like parser, built a complete world
scenario (centered around a seacoast resort), added LOTS of puzzles
(including many spinoffs from the other games), and put the whole mess
on a 3000.  We tried to include everything you ever liked about Zork
and Adventure, then tried to improve on it.

For those of you who get off on statistics:
  * Source: about 17000 lines more-or-less-standard Pascal (sorry,
    we don't send it out.)
    Database: about 6000 lines of ascii.
  * Total maingame points possible: 1216.
    Total endgame points possible: 100.
  * Parser is similar to Zork with macros and conditional clauses.
    Macros can have parameters.
  * Also runs on HP9836.

Send me mail if you want more information.

				Bill Frolik
				hp-pcd!bill
				Hewlett-Packard Personal Computer Division
				1010 NE Circle Blvd
				Corvallis, OR   97330
				(503)757-2000 x4082