I remember dropping treasures everywhere in the maze, and then drawing a
map as to what went where in both mazes. The map looked like a ball of
twine, but it worked!

Art

Greetings,

Single Sided Single Density - lets see if I remember, that was about 242k
right?

I've got my CP/M 2.2 computer in a shelf in the garage. I used to have an
8" floppy
which might be out there somewhere. I think I even saved the FORTRAN ??
compiler disk.

I don't think I'll pull it out and dust it off and try to get it running
however. It's only
a 1 Mhz computer even if it did have a Z80 instead of an 8080. I'm not sure
it's
worth it since I got my copy of Adventure running on D3/NT with a bit of
advice from
David.

I also found a web site where you can play adventure.

In the interests of full disclosure, does everyone know that there is a real
"Colossal Cave"?
It's not "Colossal Cave", but a nearby cave named "Bedquilt Cave".

This is the web site that contains these tidbits.

http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/b_cave.html

Larry Hazel

"Excalibur" <excalibur21 (AT) bigpond (DOT) com> wrote

"Luke Webber" <luke (AT) webber (DOT) com.au> wrote

I reckon you are right. They were a great machine, very reliable with
excellent BTREES and I still miss the TAB command in prints. However I must
admit that my maintenance problems dropped by 90% with moving to R83 because
klutz users can destroy any type of file system. Of course that is not the
systems fault but repairing Pick data files is so much easier.

By the way my old memory is getting hazy but wasn't it you that setup a
method to capture the memory state on crash and found a bug - a register
restored 3 lines too late if I recall - that caused me some grief as I sold
the first large machine in Australia. This monster took 2 men to carry, the
32 megabyte 8" hard drive had its own handbrake plus it had 256 kilobytes of
ram for 6 users. It actually survived being dropped off a truck that bent
the steel case and the frame - there were no specialist computer carriers in
1983.

Definition of klutz users. Taking a 1000 new customers a week, processing
700 cheque receipts a day, 12 trucks on the road, 7 girls working flat out
on order entry. TOO BUSY TO DO A BACKUP. Suddenly decide to do one, do not
use the appropriate labelled daily, weekly and monthly tape, rather
overwrite the one done by the supplier - me - on his last visit 2 weeks
before. Then allow cleaner to climb 10 foot ladder and unplug UPS while all
operators are flat out. Guess what last save nbg and previous good save 7
weeks old. Throw faulty tape in 5 ton yard skip before calling for support.
Support then recovers system over 300 baud connection from 3000km away after
recovery of tape from skip - quite a site all these bottoms sticking out for
an hour or so apparently caused quite a stir for the drivers watching. To
cap it report fault to board and master supplier of hardware as software
suppliers fault! It is so much simpler to blame someone who is not there to
defend himself.

Peter McMurray