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From: magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson)
Subject: Re: "Choose Your Own Adventure"-like game system?
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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1993 10:58:04 GMT
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In article <oVi48B4w165w@west.darkside.com>,
Erik Max Francis <max@west.darkside.com> wrote:
>I've also seen electronic versions of these Choose Your Own Adventure 
>books, though they are proprietary executables created by people now 
>and then.  The main one I've seen floating around is one called 
>PARANOIA.EXE, which is based on the Paranoia role-playing game.  It 
>comes with a very short note (PARANOIA.DOC), though it doesn't say who 
>the author is.  It also seems to imply that it was originally 
>distributed with the source code (which the note says is written in 
>C), but I've never seen it packaged with the executable.

I picked up the source code from one of the big archives (probably
uunet).  This was a few years ago, so I don't remember exactly where I
found it, but I think it was posted to comp.sources.games, so if I
were you I'd check out the comp.sources.games archive at ftp.uu.net. 

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