Subj : RetroComputing BBS
To   : MARK FIRESTONE
From : Angus Mcleod
Date : Fri Jan 28 2005 03:41 pm

  Re: RetroComputing BBS
  By: MARK FIRESTONE to Retrogamers on Fri Jan 28 2005 15:05:00

 >    Dungeon was created at the Programming Technology Division of the MIT
 > Laboratory for Computer Science by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce
 > Daniels, and Dave Lebling.  It was inspired by the Adventure game of
 > Crowther and Woods, and the Dungeons and Dragons game of Gygax
 > and Arneson.  The original version was written in MDL (alias MUDDLE).
 > The current version was translated from MDL into FORTRAN by Bob Supnik
 > of DEC Disk Engineering.

You're going to laugh, but I've played a version of the "colossal cave" 
dungeon on a Harris S-125/Vulcan that was written in Structured FORTRAN.

It was actually a pretty good implementation of colossal cave...


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