A typical text adventure revolves around a pretty simple model: A. Display description (data base). B. Get and execute commands (parser). Repeat A and B until done. One thing I learned way back on the PDP 11/70 was text adventures…
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Text Adventures, Part I
For years I have wanted to write a text adventure. Actually decades might be more accurate. The first time I played ADVENT on the PDP 11/70 at school had me hooked. Later we got DUNGEO (ZORK I, II, and III)…
Ultima I, Zork
I’ve been kind of bouncing around between games in my free time. I found Ultima I is more action oriented and Zork is more thought oriented. I can now pop into Ultima I, for a quick 10 or 15 minutes,…
Zork
I had some free, quiet time, to veg out this afternoon, so I loaded up my copy of Zork (I). I didn’t play for long, but did manage to kill the Troll fairly handily. It brought back some memories of…
Get Lamp
That’s the name of a documentary about text adventures or interactive fiction by Jason Scott. He’s also done a documentary BBS: The Documentary. I had heard about them both some time ago, but had not decided to get either one. …
Posting on the Dash
This afternoon we have been experiencing multiple power outages, so I am leaving my Apple //c powered off. We have had two or three long ones and several short ones. I managed to squeeze in about 45 minutes of Zork…
Apple II Games, Part 2
So, still thinking about games, I went back online to the place I should have started, Asimov. They had all the games on my list. Several had both the 140K and 800k disk images, unfortunately the only version of Shogun…
Apple II Uses
I’d love to hear from others on this post. Just after I graduated from high school, 1981, a friend of a friend had an Apple IIe with the two 5 1/4″ drives stacked up next to it. That was the…
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Daily Apple
I intend to use this space to post on a daily basis about Apple II computers. I bought my first Apple Computer on December 29 of 1984. It was an Apple //c and came with a 9″ monitor and stand, a…
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