Re: The OTHER SCOTT ADAMS

[mattack@area.com (Matt Ackeret)]

purchagent@prodigy.net wrote in article <871251894.15423@dejanews.com>...
> Some of my fondest childhood memories were of sitting at my friend's Apple II
> plus, and puzzling out simple text adventure games by a man named Scott
> Adams.  I believe his firm was called "Adventure International" and for a
> while, he was cranking out games and making some decent bucks at it.
> 
> Seems like he fell by the wayside as 8-bit computers did.  Does anybody
> know what happened to him?

His company went bankrupt.  A bank (I believe in Florida) now owns the
rights to his games.

There is a freeware interpreter for the games available on ftp.gmd.de.
I tried porting it to the GS a long time back, but it was *dirt slow*
compared to ports of the freeware Z-code (infocom) style interpreters, which
still puzzles me, because the way the Scott Adams games works is much
simpler.. (Thus an interpreter should be less complex.)

He infrequently posts to rec.arts.int-fiction and/or rec.games.int-fiction
and he has a web site somewhere..  (err, at least had.  The bookmark I had
is broken, and a Yahoo search for "Scott Adams Adventure" brought up the
same broken link.)
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