Adventure 660 point

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Annoyingly I have stumbled across the 660 point version of Adventure. MLA
version 10.6 26 Jul 95. While proudly showing my son what fun text based
games can be I ended up playing it all night remembering the fond days of
PDP11 and Data General Novas.
However, I need help of all things. In the original version , there was food
in the building. The 550 point version had it in a pantry. This one doesn't
seem to have it anywhere. I've tried the hints and the ftp archive but to no
avail. Anyone has a clue/ hint please?
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"Adrian" <egghead@suespammers.org> wrote in message news:<c601uf$5tn0v$1@ID-66783.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> Annoyingly I have stumbled across the 660 point version of Adventure. MLA
> version 10.6 26 Jul 95. While proudly showing my son what fun text based
> games can be I ended up playing it all night remembering the fond days of
> PDP11 and Data General Novas.

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> However, I need help of all things. In the original version , there was food
> in the building. The 550 point version had it in a pantry.

Are you sure? In the 550 point version which I have (MLA, 04 Jan
2002), the food is in the building. Of course, I'm not saying that
other versions of the game don't have the food in a pantry ...

> This one doesn't
> seem to have it anywhere.

Maybe you've looked in the right place - a room where you logically
might expect to find food (see above).

But it's empty at the start of the game. Continue your adventure for
a while, then go back.

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David Picton wrote:

> "Adrian" <egghead@suespammers.org> wrote in message news:<c601uf$5tn0v$1@ID-66783.news.uni-berlin.de>...
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>>Annoyingly I have stumbled across the 660 point version of Adventure. MLA
>>version 10.6 26 Jul 95. While proudly showing my son what fun text based
>>games can be I ended up playing it all night remembering the fond days of
>>PDP11 and Data General Novas.
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>>However, I need help of all things. In the original version , there was food
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> Are you sure? In the 550 point version which I have (MLA, 04 Jan
> 2002), the food is in the building. Of course, I'm not saying that
> other versions of the game don't have the food in a pantry ...

The pantry is found in the 500-point version of Adventure, as well as it's
decendants the 501 and 551-point versions.

But then, you already knew that didn't you David?

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Russel Dalenberg
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http://www.pobox.com/~russeld

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Russel Dalenberg <russeld@pobox.com> wrote in message news:<0dmdnabyWdurxBjdRVn-sw@io.com>...
> David Picton wrote:
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> >>Annoyingly I have stumbled across the 660 point version of Adventure. MLA
> >>version 10.6 26 Jul 95. While proudly showing my son what fun text based
> >>games can be I ended up playing it all night remembering the fond days of
> >>PDP11 and Data General Novas.
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> >>However, I need help of all things. In the original version , there was food
> >>in the building. The 550 point version had it in a pantry.

I suspect that you may have been thinking of the 551-point game (see
below).

> > Are you sure? In the 550 point version which I have (MLA, 04 Jan
> > 2002), the food is in the building. Of course, I'm not saying that
> > other versions of the game don't have the food in a pantry ...
>
> The pantry is found in the 500-point version of Adventure, as well as its
> decendants the 501 and 551-point versions.

I think there is a danger of some confusion between versions.

The 551-point game has a pantry in an obvious place - inside the
building.

In contrast, the 440-point version and its later derivatives (660 and
770 points) have a pantry inside the cave. I think both the
660-point and 770-point games start with the pantry empty, but it's
restocked after a few turns.

I suspect that one feature has been missed out of the reconstructed
Fortran 77 version of the 440-point game. Mike Arnautov said that
the 440-point game had food in the pantry - but the Fortran 77 version
has it in the building.