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6675: [MUD-Dev] Re: MURKLE: Wot it is
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From: Oliver Jowett <oliver@jowett.manawatu.planet.co.nz>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 20:37:15 +1200 (NZST)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Wed, 20 May 1998, J C Lawrence wrote:
> On Tue, 19 May 98 23:13:33 MST
> Chris Gray<cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA> wrote:
>
> > "Sharks and fish wage an ecological war on the toroidal planet
> > Wa-Tor" - A. K. Dewdney, "Computer Recreations", December 1984
> > Scientific American. The issue has a gold-coloured scorpion on the
> > cover.
>
> The bugger of it is that even with the xact title I can't determine
> whether or not it exists on the ScientificAmerican site.
>
> However, I found other interesting bits:
>
> A windows version of the game at:
>
> <URL:http://nhsbig.inhs.uiuc.edu/educational/>
Another version: xlock (well, at least the version I have here) has a
wator mode.
10 mins of watching it leads me to suspect introducing a TC predator won't
necessarily solve wild population swings..
-O
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