CMU.ADV

A "Multi-User Dungeon" (if you think CMU is a dungeon...) Text Adventure!

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;CMU.ADV
;An adventure...
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(adventure cmu 1)

(define welcome
    "That was some party last night... you must have had about twenty
    beers.  Or was it thirty?  As you try to recall, the night becomes
	a giant blur, swimming around and around in your head.  It spins
	faster, and you feel dizzy.  Don't worry, though, you're lying down.
	On the ground...\n
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<The CMU adventure, version 1.0>\n
<by Galloway & Kuehner & Pawliger>\n\n")

Above are the first few lines of CMU.ADV, a file which probably still exists on the CMU afs server. Apparently, a similar attempt at writing a CMU text adventure was made in 1986, in some arcane, lisp-like language.

This is a repository for the soon-to-be coolest text adventure on campus! CMU.ADV is written in TADS3, and compiles to a *.t3 format, readable by the frob interpreter.

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You can play this online! Click the image below!

Compiling your own!

First, you will need FrobTads if you're on any unix system, and while there is some special thing for Windows, perhaps sometimes try not using Windows, or get a bash emulator.

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Todo

• Add to map
• do literally anthing

Todo (Original):

• Need message printing routines that are smart about when messages should be printed. This is to avoid messages like " taken" when non-adventurer actors do things. There is already a 'complain' function; I want to add these: (error ) -- print string and abort if %errmsg, else return nil (mesg ) -- print message and return normally if %errmsg, else return nil (mesg3 ) -- etc etc etc as needed [ccg]

• add verbose-mode, brief-mode

• need verbs: read, run

  • yell -> silly message? maybe do something? echo from frat quad?
  • xyzzy -> ?
  • plugh -> ?

• need nouns: wearable, wear remove, other people

• need "hidden" things that only appear after a search.

• throw things into other rooms.

• get/drop all

• weight/volume limits for things.

• jolt cola (silly)

• need read verb (property readable?)

• fix map around ucc and warner

• make go in action

• Each building should have an `outside' and then you go in.

• cop shouldn't wait so long.

• phone # for pizza place. 687-1189 (who else?)

• clock minutes messed up

• can't read watch

• have door in entropy supply only open every ten minutes to get clerk away.

• How put things in each other?

• At dread. Say, there is dread here, and pick it u?

• buggy hazard on frew?

• clawed crate in basement of maggie mo?

• rotc marchers?

• basement level z in HH, hacker room? need chip to get there from chip lab.

• old wean cave?

• sei people as paranoids.

• dick cyert

• financial aid people chasing

• frat quad gazorching

• mudslide in IM field

• hideous sculpture behind warner holding a clue

• pitt student

• o's?

• steam tunnels

• clue in tower atop HH, hard to get to.

• physical plant abuse - manure?

• check `traditions' in freshman word.

• Get paint thinner and strip fence - must be night - add timed events? Each - entry loop

• increments a timer? and find clue. --I will implement timed events Real Soon Now [ccg]

• get a tool from buggy builders in exchange for a midget?

• go to cluster, log in and play this game recursively?

• tartan food as weapon

• Panther Hollow Diving Club sign

• abuse Jay Libove? (not in release version) --how about secret verb (like 'be wizard') for --things like this? [ccg]

• lookup any book in hunt library (on computer) but can't find it on shelf

• most workstations say "Vice 1 through 53 are down"

• workstation with teeny print.. unreadable

• wean hall 9th floor.. get key from someone ----Access from Elevator on DH end of wean or, from DH roof. [SGW]

• love of two oranges is alien pod/other weirdness

• tar pits

• doherty ceramic labs

• glycol spray and explosions in ucc

• banner letters useful

• RAIN

• stuff in CFA --Working on Descriptions (sorry I couldn't get to it later) [SGW]

• spring carnival?

• badges instead of keys to get around?

• find floppy disk- does it go in RT or PC? (or both?) (or neither?)

• redo, again on command

• if command ambiguous, method to tell which one in next command

• elevator in wean - use fedba1 chip to get to steam tunnels? Or via HH? Close - manhole on tunnel and get out somewhere else?

• ladder in ph closet - method climb passes move up to actor

• Banner by skibo. Tie to ladder, still can walk away. Should confirm.

• The banner is tied to the ladder. Also, if banner dropped and say tie banner says don't know which banner

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