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From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Scott Adams text adventures ?
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In article <40qkjo$j13@ixnews7.ix.netcom.com> followel@ix.netcom.com (Byron Followell ) writes:
>    I would love to find copies of the old Scott Adams text adventures.
>Does anyone know where I might find a PC version of these? If not, how
>about a TRS-80 or Apple II version that I could pull the data files off
>of and run with an interpreter. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

ScottFree will do that for DOS and Unix. You'll need to find the games as
they are still copyrighted. Brian Howarths games using the same system are
now PD (thanks Brian) and I personally think brian at his best was as good
as Scott - so take a look at those - especially twelve little indians.

Oh I nearly forgot: its all on ftp.gmd.de

Alan

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