[SPG_Active_Members] Saving video games

[Richard P. Gabriel]

At 12:17 -0800 2/17/09, Van Snyder wrote:
>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?

You know, Don Woods lives and works in the vicinity of the Computer 
History Museum - he was in my Stanford PhD incoming class. Maybe you 
could - I know this is going to sound silly - just ask him directly 
for source code:

don at iCynic.com

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