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From: chapman@pavepaws.berkeley.edu (Brent Chapman)
Newsgroups: net.sources.games,net.wanted.sources
Subject: Re: Adventure Games Sought
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Date: Thu, 17-Jul-86 22:42:16 EDT
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In article <869@ucbcad.BERKELEY.EDU> chapman@pavepaws.UUCP (Brent Chapman) writes:
>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.

I have since been informed that the source to Scott Adam's "Pirate Adventure"
appeared in BYTE several years ago.  Pirate Adventure is a low-level,
"introductory" game, that generally takes 2 to 4 hours to solve.  It
might still be of interest to you, though.  I have no idea what issue
it appeared in, or even what year.  This is second-hand information.
Sorry about that.


Brent

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