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From: buzzard@world.std.com (Sean T Barrett)
Subject: Re: IF-like passage in a book I'm reading
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Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 21:42:26 GMT
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Dennis G. Jerz <JerzDG@uwec.edu> wrote:
>Sean Barrett wrote:
>> or else
>> the 1972 is a perpetuated misinterpretation (e.g. it's clear they
>> explored the real cave in 1972; perhaps that year was incorrectly
>> misread by someone as the authorship year).
>> was misremembering, but that seems unlikely.
>
>"In early 1976 Will and Pat divorced. Looking for something to do with his
>two children, he hit upon an idea that united Will the programmer with
>Willie the imaginary thief: a simplified, computer version of Dungeons and
>Dragons called Adventure...."
>(206) "When Wizards Stay Up Late."

Ok, that is consistent with the other quotations from him
that it was a post-divorce activity; in fact I had spent
some time searching for "will crowther"+"divorce" on Google
in the hopes of finding a revelation there.

So it sounds likely he authored it in 1976, which is the same
year Woods is widely regarded as having worked on his version,
if I recall correctly the timelines I was reading yesterday.

Of course my original question was whether the use of second-person
narrative derived from RPGs, and I think that's pretty clear now.

SeanB
