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From: librik@netcom.com (David Librik)
Subject: Re: Does anyone remember Raaka II?
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Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 23:46:52 GMT
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cinnamon@one.net (r. n. dominick) writes:
>Ah, the days of those Tandy adventure games! Most of them on the CoCo 
>were programmed by the same guy, but damned if I can remember his name. 
>Let's see... "Raaka Tu", "Pyramid 2000" (cross between Scott Adams' 
>_Pyramid_ and _Infidel_),

Hardly.  Pyramid 2000 was an exact rip-off of the original Adventure.
The cave was changed to a pyramid and other objects were renamed, but
it was the same old game that every computerist has played since the
dawn of time...

>                          "Bedlam" (which frustrated me for a LONG TIME, 
>but had some very neat bits!), "Lucifer's Realm" (I *really* would like a 
>copy of this for a PC)...

>PUT PILL IN HAMB.FEED HAMB TO DOG.TAKE DEAD DOG

You should get Jeff Vavasour's TRS-80 Emulator for the PC (at oak.oakland.ca,
as /pub/msdos/emulators/model1-d.zip).  It will let you play all those TRS-80
games on your PC.  I recently replayed Lucifer's Realm, and its sequel The
Paradise Threat.  Jyym Pearson had a frustrating interface but a twistedly
brilliant imagination.

- David Librik
librik@cs.Berkeley.edu
