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From: mg@cidam.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Adventure Games Sought
Message-ID: <221@cidam.oz>
Date: Sat, 19-Jul-86 05:33:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: cidam.221
Posted: Sat Jul 19 05:33:40 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jul-86 21:40:42 EDT
References: <515@ur-tut.UUCP> <869@ucbcad.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: RMIT Mech & Prod Eng, Melbourne, Australia.
Lines: 36
Keywords: Scott Adams.   Is the source available ???
Summary: write your own adventure! the tools are there.

In article <869@ucbcad.BERKELEY.EDU>, chapman@pavepaws.berkeley.edu (Brent Chapman) writes:
> In article <515@ur-tut.UUCP> sag2@ur-tut.UUCP (Dent Arthur Dent) writes:
> >
> >... ... ....  What I really need is the source.  Almost any language is
> >acceptable, but C is preferable and Pascal is a distant second.  These 
> >games were great and I would really like to be able to play them again.
> 
> In any case, most microcomputer adventure games (especially the earlier
> ones, such as the Scott Adams stuff, and ZORK and such) were written in
> assembler.  
> 
> 
> Brent

Actually, from what I read, MUDL (or somesuch name) was the original language
for ZORK.

What I really want to say is that on the 4.2 distribution tape there is
something called ddl (Dungeon Description Language). Ddl means that you
no longer have to pine for adventureland (whatever that is) because you
can write a ddl description for yourself.

I have never used ddl myself so I can't comment on its utility. Nor do
we keep sources on line (no disk space) hence I haven't checked to see
if it's VAX specific.  I think that it was written at UCLA.  

I have vague memories of some skeleton adventure style games provided with
ddl, so it shouldn't be too hard to get something built.

-- Mike
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