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From: felis@wucs1.wustl.edu (Felis Lynx)
Subject: Re: Rakatu
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Date: Fri, 14 May 1993 21:36:33 GMT
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In article <1993May14.200745.16512@medmail.stanford.edu> donoho@cmgm.stanford.edu writes:
>After seeing a post a while back about the mediocre adventure games put
>out by Tandy/Radio Shack (which at one point I owned copies of), it

[ question on "Rakatu" deleted (as I REALLY don't know the answer) ]

>original cassette tapes :-).  It still makes me laugh just thinking about
>loading those things for 20 minutes or more onto our old TRS-80 Model
>III...watching the little asterisks blink on and off, praying that it
>wouldn't say "BAD" and we'd have to rewind and re-load.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Greg
>

Ahh!  The memories!  It was odd seeing people here talk about the
memories of Infocom games here, while I remembered the first time
that I'd played those tape adventure games from TSR....  Made me
feel a lot older than I am.... <grin>  But those games from TSR were
pretty bad, especially when you look at the time to load them!
What was there, now?  "Bedlam" and the pyramid game (which might be
"Rakatu", but that doesn't sound right...).  Then I got a COCO
(what a WONDERFUL move that was!) and moved onto games like
"Calixo Island" and "Black Sanctum" and the like!  At least then I had
a disk drive to load them from....  I still have fun memories of
the TSR-80 Model I that we ran the text-adv games on and its tape
drive.  It dies one day after I typed in a HUGE program from a book
that was actually kind of fun to play.  We left the machine on for a whole
week STRAIGHT!  Ah, childhood!

Felis Lynx

