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#! rnews 1819 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!mwk!gleason From: gleason@mwk.com Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,rec.games.int-fiction,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: xyzzy Message-ID: <1995Sep19.231626.3233@mwk.com> Date: 19 Sep 95 23:16:26 CST References: <43ld3a$2ka@ub.d.umn.edu> <43m79t$86k@crl4.crl.com> <43mi05$2h6@newsflash.concordia.ca> <43n91t$4nh@gap.cco.caltech.edu> <43njv6$s0e@crl5.crl.com> Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers,rec.games.int-fiction,comp.unix.bsd.misc Organization: M. W. Kellogg, Houston TX Lines: 27 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.folklore.computers:88401 rec.games.int-fiction:7426 comp.unix.bsd.misc:233 In article <43njv6$s0e@crl5.crl.com>, jawells@crl.com (Jason A. Wells) writes: > Tim Shoppa (shoppa@altair.krl.caltech.edu) wrote: > : In article <43mi05$2h6@newsflash.concordia.ca>, > : Joachim Thiemann <joachim@ece.concordia.ca> wrote: > : >Jason A. Wells (jawells@crl.com) proclaimed to us: > : >: Christopher G Busch (cbusch@ub.d.umn.edu) wrote: > : > > > [ Snip. ] > > > To my knowledge, when Zork was first released, Infocom boasted > that their command handling, complex puzzles, and such could not be > handled in FORTRAN. Which caused DECUS (DEC Users Society) develop Dungeon > to prove Infocom wrong. DECUS apparently did a nice job (never played it, > myself) however Dungeon is said to fall short in its command handling. It was long before Infocom was a company...and it wasn't DECUS, but "a somewhat paranoid DEC disk engineer", who wanted to rename nameless, but who had a cat named Barney, and later worked on some darned important chips at DEC, who came up with the Fortran translation... Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR Control-G Consultants gleason@mwk.com