[geeks] Kickass old Mac games

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Mon Jul 8 14:42:05 CDT 2002


On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 12:39:14PM -0700, Fogg, James wrote:
> Hrm...
> I used to play what is now known as Adventure way back when.
> 
> Lets see, on a DG Eclipse of some model when they were in production. I used
> a 300bps acoustically coupled printing terminal for it. This was maybe 1977
> or 78? Not sure of the year. It may predate OT.
> 
> I love this game and still have a .rpm of it for Linux. It took me weeks to
> figure out that I had to scream at the bear.

When I was a young one playing it on my mother's KayproII CPM machine
(with 8086 coprocessor card for running MS-Dos hacked into the case in
such a way that a hole was left on top where the card stuck out
partway), I was beaten soundly around the ears by that infernal maze.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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