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From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Scott Adam's Adventureland
Message-ID: <1993Jun4.111322.8289@swan.pyr>
Organization: Swansea University College
References: <1993Jun2.222616.24214@barsoom.nhh.no> <1993Jun3.154456.25387@nomina.lu.se>
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1993 11:13:22 GMT
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In article <1993Jun3.154456.25387@nomina.lu.se> magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson) writes:
>In article <1993Jun2.222616.24214@barsoom.nhh.no> EDB_MORTEN@DEBET.nhh.no (LXHRE, MORTEN) writes:
>>I followed a discussion here earlier about the Scott Adams games. His first
>>game, Adventureland, appeared on one of the PC-SIG disks. This was a BASIC
>>version, which will run on GW-BASIC or similar in MS-DOS.
>>
>>If you are unable to obtain a copy of this game, and would *VERY MUCH* like to
>>get one, you could try to persuade me into mailing you one.
>
>It would be even better if you could upload it to ftp.gmd.de.
>(If you can't do that, email the file to me and I'll upload it for you).
>

Be very careful of the copyrights on such material.

Some of the Scott Adams stuff is still available for certain machines
from Adventure International UK (aka Adventuresoft uk ltd), who when AI
went down were left able to sell the stuff the already had in stock. That
stock was patchy two years ago but you might be lucky.

The interpreter used for Scotts games is also documented and has been
cloned before now. The biggest problem is the database of the game is
compiled into the game itself on most versions.

Alan

