Been reading Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction by Nick Montfort. About two-thirds of the way through and enjoying it. One of the first things I did back in the early ’70s when I first got access to a computer (an HP 3000 at Lawrence Hall of Science during a high school science class field trip) was to write little BASIC programs that spewed out sarcastic Star Trek scripts. It was a lot of fun and writing anything in BASIC made me appreciate LISP when I started to learn it a decade later at SSU. It was not until I got to Island Graphics in ’88 that I go a Sun workstation (a 3/50) and discovered Advent. But earlier than that, I had been exposed to Hammurabi (kind of an Ur-SimCity) and Hunt the Wumpus on the PDP-8 at the local JC. (That was during the summer of 1973.) Ah, that computer lab was air-conditioned, but, oh, those noisy old ASR33s.
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