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From: ahm@hogpe.att.com (Andreas Meyer)
Subject: Re: Q:History of Interactive Fiction
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In rec.arts.int-fiction, goetz@cs.buffalo.edu (Phil Goetz) writes:

> My advisor wants an overview of IF.
> The major events in computer IF that I can think of are:

> 1970?  Colossal Cave	Woods & Crowther?

Probably more like 1975 or so.
I first ran ADVENT on the DecSystem-10 at Syracuse University
around 1976.

> 1976?  Zork		Marc Blanc & ...?

...Dave Lebling.  Before it was scaled-down and became Zork, it ran 
on mainframes as DUNGEON.  (There was a great full-color Dungeon map 
published in an issue of _DEC Professional_ a few years back). 
Anyway, I seem to remember an issue of BYTE in 1980 that was devoted
to adventure-style games, and had a history of Zork in there.


I understand you're looking for milestones here, but I think that
the Scott Adams Adventure International games did alot to bring
to bring interactive fiction into the home.  I had my memory of them
refreshed this weekend when I found my CP/M set of "Adventureland"
games.  (Can you believe we used to think this was fun? :-)

Cheers,
Andy
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