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Subject: Re: Adventure Games Sought
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Date: Wed, 16-Jul-86 22:15:33 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 16 22:15:33 1986
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In article <515@ur-tut.UUCP> sag2@ur-tut.UUCP (Dent Arthur Dent) writes:
>
>The recent posting of Adventure has once again reminded me of those
>Scott Adams Adventure games, like Adventureland, Pirates Island, Mission
>Impossible, etc....  Does anyone out there know of where I might be
>able to acquire the source to these games, especially adventureland.
>The only versions I have had access to were the ones for the Trash-80
>and the Apple ][.  No flames, I realize that these are pathetic machines.
>I had to use the Trash back in high school and never, thank god, had to
>use the Apple.  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.

Lighten up about micros...  Without systems like the TRS-80 and the Apple II,
we wouldn't be in the middle of the "computer revolution" today.

I doubt you'll be able to obtain source to any of the games you mentioned.
The Scott Adams Adventures still sell.

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.  Decent high level languages for such micros are a fairly
recent (within the last two to four years) invention.  There was, at the
time, no other way to get what was deemed reasonable performance.  The
only "major" adventure-style games on those micros that I am aware of that
are not written in assembler are Wizardry and its sequels, which are written
in Pascal.


Brent

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