On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 5:15 PM Mike Loewen <mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us> wrote:
If anyone wants to pool ideas on covering different aspects of Text Adventures (not perhaps as involved as UNIX Town, but at least coordinating a bit), I'm up for that.
I can run Mystery Mansion on either an HP 1000 or HP 3000 system. Something very few of our visitors will have seen. The problem will be keeping Alex Bodnar off of it. :-)
I was unfamiliar with it (since I have little experience with old HP machines) but I did find a port of it to C. https://github.com/garnett1966/Mystery-Mansion I'll have to check it out. I think having numerous platforms running Text Adventures is fantastic. In addition to the usual minicomputers and 80s micros that can run Scott Adams' games and Infocom games, I can provide some oddball, not-originally-covered machines, including the 1802, and we'll see what else I can manage by Spring (I have two specific ones in mind in progress I don't want to reveal until I'm a lot closer to done, but suffice it to say, they are among my favorite types of machines and are under-represented in the Text Adventure world). With the semi-recent release of all the Infocom Source, there's a lot of material available that was formerly closed. It's one of the reasons I'm having a hard time focusing on the Theme because there are so many angles. I'm a long-time fan of Scott Adams' work, and of course, a mega Infocom fan. And then there's all the rest of the stuff... -ethan