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VERY GOOD!  However, there is also an area where they are "ALL THE
SAME", but it is all in the same program.

BTW people, this is the famous ADVENTURE program, which was the
*FIRST* computer RPG (Role Playing Game).  Zork, and later all the
MUDs, derived from it.  The copy of the source code that is on my
system (which Bro. Masoner used to answer this question) dates back to
1977.  I first saw it in 1978 or 1979, when I adapted it to work on
the computers made by the company I worked for at the time.  A
secretary first called my attention to it.  A friend of hers had given
her a tape (1/2 inch 9-track 800 BPI) with the sources on it.  She
wanted me to get it working on her terminal.

After I got it up on our machine, a veritable epidemic of adventurers
developed as many people (yours truley included) wasted *HUGE* amounts
of time trying to map out the cave of this game.

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>> "twisted little maze of passages" that had to be gone through slowly
>> and deliberately.

> Alright, who can identify the origin of the phrase in quotes above?

[some output has been snipped]

 barayaki[/usr/src/STS/aix41/generic/BUILD/driver]$ rlogin eli.elilabs.com
 Password: 
 Last login: Thu Oct  9 09:58:08 from barayaki.cd.com
 Linux 2.0.29.
 richardm@eli.elilabs.com:/home/richardm on /dev/ttyq1=iris-ansi-net at Thu Oct 9 10:02:40 CDT 1997
 up 1 day, 11:14, 15 users, load average: 0.09, 0.07, 0.08


 The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is
 from the LORD.
         -- Pr 16:1 


 eli:~$ whereis adventure
 adventure: /usr/local/games/adventure
 eli:~$ cd /usr/local/games/adventure
 eli:/usr/local/games/adventure$ ls -l
 total 645
 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root        71863 Dec 28  1993 ADV.DATA
 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root          477 Dec 28  1993 Makefile
 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       286702 Aug  4  1995 adventure.c

 eli:/usr/local/games/adventure$ grep -i "all different" ADV.DATA

      107YOU ARE IN A MAZE OF TWISTY LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL DIFFERENT.


Richard Masoner

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