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From: cc100jr@gitpyr.UUCP (Joel M. Rives)
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: Re: Has anyone ever heard of a game called Moria?
Message-ID: <944@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 10:45:53 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 28 10:45:53 1985
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Keywords: Moria, Vax, Games

In article <183@ur-tut.UUCP> scco@ur-tut.UUCP (Sean Colbath) writes:
>A friend of mine recently told me about a game called 'Moria' (presumably
>from Tolkien) that was on a Vax where he worked.  Has anyone ever heard of
>it/played it?  Is the source code available for it to run on Unix?  (My friend
>was running VMS)...  Thanks in advance,
>
>-Sean Colbath

Sean -
   Moria (at least the only implementation that I know about) is a game written
in the Tutor language for CDC's Plato Environment. If this is in fact the only
implementation, it would not run on a VAX. Of course someone at that site may
have written a translation. As for a UN*X version ... I would also like to 
know if there is such an implementation. Moria (and especially it's updated  
version: a game called Avatar) is one of the finest adventure-type games I've
seen on a computer. It works in a 3-D world and is not unlike rogue/hack (The
relationship between Moria and Hack is quite similar to the relationship bet-
ween Hack Rogue and Hack).
				  Skippin' o'er th' timelines ag'in
				  Whisper Spirit

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