Nope... Some of us are too old for that, but we did play "Adventure" on
VM... "maze of twisty turny little passages all different". No graphics,
just keystrokes and imagination.
Joe Temple
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On Friday, 04/28/2006 at 10:05 EST, "Tom Duerbusch"
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> I know we are all virtual...really...
>
> But in what universe can you have a 20 sided dice? The pursuit of a 20
> sided dice, would make the pursuit of "free beer" look as easy as
> turning on the tap (for those of us that don't work at a brewery).
Dude! You never played Dungeons & Dragons? Two 20-sided dice
(icosahedra) give you a number between 00 and 99 with an even probability
distribution. Picture at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icosahedron.
Octahedra and dodecahedra (12-sided) are used as well. We even
occasionally used the more famous hexahedron.
I thought all computer geeks played D&D .... :-)
Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott
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