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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome
Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 06:53:12 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-05-05, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2025 08:36:03 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>
>> The text games required a level of patience most people don't have
>> nowadays. They also more or less demanded that you create maps, take
>> notes and so on. My nerd cousin could do it, but no one else was willing
>> to.
>
> I didn't have the patience back in the day either. I remember one based on 
> 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'.  I didn't care that much for the 
> book and I never got further than a bulldozer driving through Ford 
> Prefect's house or something like that.

Some of the stuff in those books was really funny. I read them all (and the 
Dirk Gently series as well). But there were a lot of dry (boring) passages 
in these books also. I found out later it was because it was originally a 
series of radio broadcasts and Douglas Adams was supposed to fill in the 
connection between the different broadcasts to make the novels. He tended to 
procrastinate and then quick (pretty dry) writing. Overall, however, I 
enjoyed reading these books, especially the first one.

> https://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-the-
> galaxy-42#download

I tried that one also. I managed to get to the Vogon ship and that was about 
it.

> I think I had a low rent version of Zork on CP/M and never got far in that 
> one either. 

I think I first tried Zork on a DEC Rainbow 100, which had two CPUs and ran 
two OSes, CP/M and some kind of MS-DOS that wasn't completely compatible 
with most MS-DOS applications (if I remember right). I only had that 
computer for a few months, but enjoyed playing around with it for a while. I 
think the Zork game was on the CP/M side, but I can't remember for sure.

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