Re: What was this game?

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>]

There was Zork, Rogue and Adventure in various forms.  In Rogue
you had a blank screen and you could only see a certain distance
around you as you explored a maze.  It seems to me that Zork was
similar.  It could have been a Basic game that was ported from
a mainframe.  There were a few of those in the day that used
terminal commands and *,/,| and a few other characters to move
around the screen.

I used to play such games on a DEC PDP-11 in college using
a paper terminal.  Really primitive.  The advent of the CRT was
a real boon.  I think we got those in 1981-82 in my sophmore year.

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"Sheldon Simms" <sheldon@semanticedge.com> wrote in message
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> Im Artikel <2JkR6.4758$DG1.1008878@news1.rdc1.mi.home.com> schrieb
> "william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>:
>
> > Is this the games?  There is a site where you can get them still for the
> > Apple II series.
> >
> > http://www.spowers.net/Tolkien/tolkien-games/entry/lotr-eamon.html
> >
> > Hope that helps.
>
> Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately that's not it. The game I'm
> thinking of was not eamon, and, in fact, not a "text adventure" at all.
>
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