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From: neilg@fraser.sfu.ca (Neil K. Guy)
Subject: Re: ZORK I in another game...?
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References: <1993Feb24.174426.18681@freenet.carleton.ca> <blasius.170.730597876@gmd.de>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 06:27:12 GMT
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blasius@gmd.de (Volker Blasius) writes:

>Correct. I first thought I had stumbled upon a bug, because the screen 
>cleared, the picture, the compass, and the word list disappeared, and I had 
>blank screen telling me, "You are standing in front of a little white 
>house. There is a mailbox here." (or whatever the correct text is). Then 
>memories from auld lang syne rushed in...

 Bureaucracy did much the same thing, as I recall, when you tried to
run the game cartridge on the Boysenberry computer.

 - Neil K. (n_k_guy@sfu.ca)
