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From: "Adam J. Thornton" <adam@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 19:07:56 -0400
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 01:09:41PM -0700, J C Lawrence wrote:
> Going back about 10 years there was a project to do a shell script
> (csh!) based adventure game under *nix where rooms were directories,
> exits were symlinks between directories, objects were files, room
> descriptions and the like were .desc files in each directory,
> special features in rooms and objects were local shell scripts with
> standardised names, and all the basic movement commands were
> suitably aliased to `cd`. The world was inherently persistant with
> no explicit save semantics (of course), and starting a new game
> meant un tarballing the tree into a new directory. No, I don't know
> how far it got other than the fact that they got something of a game
> established. Yes, it did work.
Advsh, you mean?
It's cute, but really annoying.
Adam
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