On or near 7/22/02 7:15 PM, Diane L. Schirf at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
>> I >> have yet to really use it except to play Adventure, a nostalgic discovery. > > The first thing I ever did on a computer was play Adventure! For me it was the first remote computing I did. I was working for a company in So.Cal, where we used "Silent 700" terminals--these things with thermal paper on rolls that used acoustic coupler modems at, what was it, 300 baud? Someone had a pirated phone account at one of the local universities, and by dialing in, we could somehow telephone hop--for free--to, I think it was Carnegie Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh! We dialed in and played Adventure for hours and hours! I finally completed the game and solved all the puzzles four or five years later when I found the game again on a VAX computer where I worked. The GNU Emacs I downloaded, free, has a Tools menu, with a Games submenu. One of them is Adventure...and it works. I tried today and could not get off the initial road. It seems, to my rusty memory, to be a different version of the game. But I may be remembering incorrectly. -- My web page: <http://home.earthlink.net/~allenwatson/> My scripts page: <http:homepage.mac.com/allenwatson> Microsoft MVP for Mac Entourage/Word--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
