<Grin> I had all three Zorks for the Commodore 64 but I only completed the first one. Are any of those still out there that will run on something newer? I wouldn't mind spending a few hours with Zork again. LOL. I bet my wife wouldn't like it any better this time than last time.
Len On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Maglinger, Paul <[email protected]>wrote: > Zork! Leisure Suit Larry! > > ------------------------------ > *From:* paul chinnery [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, June 11, 2009 2:22 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: OT : 2000 .vs. 2009 > > And remember the old text based adventure games? Simple commands like > "go right" or "look right." > Many were written in BASIC so it was pretty easy to "hack" the program to > win. > > ------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:49:56 -0500 > Subject: Re: OT : 2000 .vs. 2009 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > Hey I had the Tandy 1000 too! With colour monitor...wow! > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Maglinger, Paul<[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I remember buying magazines for the ZX Spectrum that contained games - > if > >> you had the patience to type in every line of code required. And then > >> finding there was a syntax error somewhere on line 5040.... > > > > They had those in the Commodore magazine. > > There was almost always a typo somewhere, or you couldn't always tell if > > there was a space (or how many), or if that was a period or a comma. And > > once you got it right, you could save it to your cassette recorder! > > I remember doing similar on a friend's Apple ][, except we could > never get the damn tape interface to work right, so we had to leave a > big note on the computer saying "DO NOT TOUCH OR TURN OFF!!" and hope > the power didn't go out, and only work on one program at a time. I > remember when they got the upgrade to the floppy drive -- high tech! > > The first PC in my (parents) home was a Tandy 1000 SL. It not only > came standard with floppy and a whopping 512 KB of RAM, it had MS-DOS > in *ROM* -- so you could turn it on and get right to a prompt. > > Plus it had a clock battery. "Only IBM-PC users know that January > 1, 1980 was a Tuesday." > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. See > how.<http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd_062009> > > > > > > > > > > -- Len Hammond CSI:Hartland ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
