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From: thornley@milli.cs.umn.edu (David H. Thornley)
Subject: Re: Old Adventure International (Scott Adam's games)
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Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 22:32:31 GMT
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In article <TJFS.92Nov24155247@coffee.tadtec.uucp> tjfs@tadtec.uucp (Tim Steele) writes:
>I presume Adventure International is no more.  That's a relief as I
>have a non-disclosure agreement with them valid "in perpetuity"
>regarding the driver.
>
>It's like this: in my youth I disassembled the whole thing (TRS-80
>version) and wrote an editor to allow me to write new adventures.

Actually, The Alternate Source sold The Adventure System, which was an
editor and driver so you could write and play Scott Adams-type games.
Both were compatible with the actual Scott Adams adventures, and could
indeed be used to cheat.  (Until then, my best cheating method was to
use a disk editor to find the list of verbs and nouns.)  I had a copy
back when I had a TRS-80, and wrote an adventure involving a deserted
monastery.  Unfortunately, I don't think I have *any* of this stuff
anymore, let alone a system that I could run it on.

DHT



