Best Text Game...

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From: coco-sysop
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1993 02:35

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 >Reply to Item    3118422                 93/11/23        06:19
 >From:   COCO@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU@INTERNET#
 >Sub:      Best Text Game...
 >From <@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU:COCO@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU> Tue Nov 23 18:54:27

 >I think for best Text Adventure... HitchHikers Guide has to win handsdown!

HEAR HEAR!

 >BTW, I never tried it on a CoCo 3, has anyone else?

It works fine, in 32 columns...unless, of course, you get Terry Todd's
INFOPATCH that makes it run 80 columns, upper and lowercase, double speed,
6ms...

 >One of these days, I'll get the "New Original Adventure" working on the
 >CoCo, it already works on OSK.

The "new"?  I have one for OS-9 I downloaded from GEnie - it was part of the
old OS9UG library.

          Allen C. Huffman -/- Sub-Etha Software

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