johnv Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 the 'a maze of twisty passages' stuff etc .. I haven't heard this since my mainframe days in 1978 .. wasn't it the text based adventure game on the IBM/AMDAHLS? xyzzy was the magic password I seem to recall ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Manager Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 Indeed, known as Advent then (can't remember whether it was vm/cms or tso), but descended from Colossal Cave. I think I've got dos versions somewhere Plugh Windows Executable Edited by - Site Manager on 16 Feb 2011 19:45:56 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnv Posted February 17, 2011 Author Share Posted February 17, 2011 that's it .. TSO I was an APL programmer then, spent hours on Advent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northernmonkey Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 Just installed adventure on my machine - Going to give it a go... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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