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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Adventure type games
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Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 18:30:59 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 11 18:30:59 1984
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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
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