[SPG_Active_Members] Saving video games
Van Snyder
Van.Snyder at jpl.nasa.gov
Tue Feb 17 12:17:03 PST 2009
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 10:33 -0800, Henry Lowood wrote:
> As a matter of fact, just yesterday we found a copy of the source code
> for the Don Woods version of Adventure, plus the database code/data
> and a bunch of messages and texts. This was part of a project to
> rescue the files of Stanford's old SUMEX-AIM machine. Our colleagues
> at U. Maryland recently discovered the original Willy Crowther version
> of the source, so we're getting there. We've had less success with
> commercial titles, but a few publishers have released some code, e.g.
> id.
> Henry
I have a listing of Adventure that ran on Univac 1108. The listing
includes databases. Does SCC want this?
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