[thechat] dumb PC question from a Mac user

Erika ekm at seastorm.com
Sun Sep 23 19:57:36 CDT 2007


Garrett Coakley wrote:

 > You are in a maze of twisty passages all alike.
 >
 > You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
 >
 >
 > G.

Played that one on a... um.  um....
I think it was called CPM?
(checks google)

yeah... this one
http://www.digitalresearch.biz/CPM.HTM

I was the first kid in class to do papers on a computer
(WordSTAR printed w/ dot matrix... FANCY)
(you'd think I'd be better at computers by now.)

That game was called Zork?  I think the one I had
was "Adventure."  Which may have even
pre-dated Zork... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork

see also:

http://www.homestarrunner.com/dungeonman.html
http://www.videlectrix.com/thydungeonman2.html
http://www.homestarrunner.com/dman3.html

I kinda miss those days... how exciting it was to make the computer do 
something... ANYTHING....

E



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