Bob Jones wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 JV> What will it find there?

 MK> Adventure!  ARRRRRRRRRR!

 BJ> You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick
 BJ> building. Around you is a forest.  A small stream flows out of the
 BJ> building  and down a gully.

>

 BJ> 

 RJT> TAKE KEYS

 BJ> Ok.



 BJ> ====

 BJ> Actually, you have to enter the building to get the keys....

Well,  yeah.

 BJ> and the initial pickup of the lamp.....  Finally someone who knows 
 BJ> my obtouse (sp?) reference.  

Yep!  Did you know that you can save a lot of steps by typing in
"building" from pretty far away?  I've not played it in a while
so I forget how far you can be where that still works.

First time I bumped into that it was running on a Heath H11 (PDP-11/03), 
and I did get to see the source -- which gave me a pretty good clue that I
had *NO* idea of what FORTRAN was all about.  

 BJ> Guess I'll have to get this running as a door under Max / Linux to
 BJ> enlighten the younger generation.....  

My grandkids here have shown little interest,  being mostly attracted to
stuff with lots of flashy graphics on that w98 box here.  But seeing as how
the two oldest are 13 (yikes! two teenagers around at once! :-),  I can't
say I blame them too much.

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