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  • Re: Adventure: Crowther's original source code found; photos from insid

    From Trainy McTrainface@21:1/5 to lbattag...@gmail.com on Tue Aug 8 15:11:42 2023
    On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 at 4:23:07 PM UTC-7, lbattag...@gmail.com wrote:
    I actually know where will lives and I actually know his family. I saw the actual source code. It was so cool! I even got to play it!

    Cool, have him email me a copy, please. ;)
    Kidding, but also not... I suppose there are books on game theory that break it all down and explain it better than me trying to remember code I haven't seen for 4 decades. Off to the library, I suppose, if such things still exist....

    I'm learning Go programming, and it would be a fun rewrite as a server. Or Snipes. Anyone remember Snipes?

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  • From Kerr-Mudd, John@21:1/5 to Trainy McTrainface on Wed Aug 9 10:16:31 2023
    On Tue, 8 Aug 2023 15:11:42 -0700 (PDT)
    Trainy McTrainface <trainsdonthunt@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 at 4:23:07 PM UTC-7, lbattag...@gmail.com wrote:
    I actually know where will lives and I actually know his family. I saw the actual source code. It was so cool! I even got to play it!

    Cool, have him email me a copy, please. ;)
    Kidding, but also not... I suppose there are books on game theory that break it all down and explain it better than me trying to remember code I haven't seen for 4 decades. Off to the library, I suppose, if such things still exist....

    I'm learning Go programming, and it would be a fun rewrite as a server. Or Snipes. Anyone remember Snipes?

    Sure. Not quite the same as Colossal Cave/Advent

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    Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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