New Adventures of Queen Victoria by Pab Sungenis for March 22, 2014

Ok

Doggie is going to mark miles and miles of virtual territory.

Do you recognize the computer?

Zork!

This reminds of an MIT friend’s homemade computer.Booting required some numbers entered to command it to read the drive.

And in an astounding flurry, the little bird is burned to a crisp.

I used to try to play that game. Lord, I’m old…

xyzzy

Reminds me of “Pyramid”, which a high school friend loaded each time we played from a cassette tape (ca 1878).

I had an old Commodore VIC-20 and figured out somehow how to get a look at the code on the game cassettes, which I thought was a pretty cool thing to do be able to do. Other than playing games, it couldn’t do a whole lot.

I love Zork, especially when my sister dies trying to kill the troll.

I ran “adventure” on a number of mainframes. I still have a map of The Cave somewhere.

But mostly I loved the adventure-style game “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” which included a sequence something like this:

GO NORTH you can’t go that wayGO NORTH you can’t go that wayGO NORTH I said, you can’t go that wayGO NORTH OK, I lied. You can go that way.

I still remember the secret code – “xyzzy” – that would get you through one of the locked doors. I had a roommate who went to MIT and we used to boot into the mainframe from home using an acoustic device that fit a land line phone handset. This was around 1975-76. One game was called Adventure, another was Dungeon. Oh, and pschearer, we drew a map as well. Haven’t thought about that in years.

Thanks for the link. I’m sure it will be an adventure.

YES! This is a TRS-DOS Model III. I owned one (64 MB hard drive). Conversed with a guy at work about his Model III (128 MB). A year later we were married. Not a joke.

ah… the good ol’ days

Ah, is there a Keeshond in the house?