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Game Type

Adventure

Cost

Freeware - Open Source

Web Site

N/A

System Requirements

OS/2 Warp 4.x / eCS 1.x / ArcaOS 5.x or later

Version Available

N/A

Download

195 KB

Latest Update

1998-Apr-20

 

Synopsis:

This is an ancient game; I can remember playing it (or an earlier version, at least) on a PDP-11/20 when I was in college in the mid-1970's.  If you're into fast-paced shoot-em-ups you probably won't like it. Everything is text, just as it was when played on a teletype spewing paper with every move.

So why bother porting such a game? My son, almost 13 years old  now, found a version of it on his uncle's DEC System 5400 and was captivated (but then he's been a fan of Will Crowther's text "Adventure" game since about age 6).  My brother and I tracked the source code down to a site in Australia and Bryan Whitehead was kind enough to port it to OS/2 for me with the emx compiler. Now my son can play it at home on our OS/2 machine instead of hanging out at his uncle's endlessly or telnet-ing into the DEC machine and tying up our phone lines :-)

If you think you'd enjoy a "blast from the past" give it a try.
At least it could give you an idea how people played with
computers back in the dark ages.

So, enjoy.
-John

This port was done by Bryan Whitehead.