Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!genrad!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.games,net.micro,net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Adventure type games Message-ID: <2709@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 18:30:59 EDT Article-I.D.: ecsvax.2709 Posted: Mon Jun 11 18:30:59 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Jun-84 06:32:43 EDT References: mit-eddi.2088 Lines: 13 I second the high praise for Infocom's adventure-type games. They are indeed the most sophisticated around. (A good many can't be played without the documentation, by the way. That's a nice way to reduce piracy! These games are written in a dialect of LISP and, if I'm not mistaken, use a special condensed character storage system. To my knowledge none put graphhics on the screen (awwww...) D Gary Grady Duke University Computation Center, Durham, NC 27706 (919) 684-4146 USENET: {decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary