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From: toma@tekgvs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sources.games,net.wanted.sources
Subject: Re: Adventure Games Sought
Message-ID: <1630@tekgvs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Jul-86 11:30:09 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 18 11:30:09 1986
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Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.UUCP (Thomas Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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Keywords: Scott Adams.   Is the source available ???
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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.

Adventureland and Pirates Island were originally done in BASIC.  There
source was published in two issues of Softside.  Scott Adams later rewrote
everything in Assembler for much better performance.  I would post the
sources, but unfortunately they are not public domain!  

Tom Almy
Tektronix