[Coco] Anyone still play text adventure games?

[Steve Batson]

Lol....no problem. Bedlam is a cool text adventure. I solved it many years ago, forgot most of it. Will be like starting from scratch now.


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On May 23, 2011, at 6:27 PM, Sean <badfrog at gmail.com> wrote:

> That was me, first time I actually ever won a game!
> 
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Steve Batson
> <steve at batsonphotography.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Aaron...I got in from home...it looks like someone played it through
>> to escape the asylum. Is the a command that can be issued to force it to
>> the start by the user? I know that wouldn't make other current players
>> happy though...LOL.
>> 
>> ----------------------------------------
>> From: "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 2:09 PM
>> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Anyone still play text adventure games?
>> 
>> I started up the server, you can play by telneting to 69.13.218.10 port
>> 6809
>> 
>> this url may work depending on the computer you click it with:
>> 
>> telnet://69.13.218.10:6809
>> 
>> A few new commands were added to those available in Bedlam, like /who
>> to see who is connected, /say to talk to other players, etc.  I think
>> there is some help built in.  It's been a while.
>> 
>> I will package up the source and post somewhere in next couple days.
>> 
>> There is no "save game", but the server will persist state as long as
>> it's running, so you can disconnect and come back later (although by
>> that time someone else may have open/closed doors, etc).
>> 
>> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Steve Batson
>>  wrote:
>>> I'd love to see the Perl Version. Would be cool to play on the PC or
>>> anything running Perl. Does it let you save the game to resume later?
>>> 
>>> ----------------------------------------
>>> 
>>> From: "Aaron Wolfe"
>>> Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 10:59 PM
>>> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts"
>>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Anyone still play text adventure games?
>>> 
>>> A couple years ago I rewrote Bedlam in Perl. It's fairly authentic,
>>> with all of the original text, rooms, mobs, commands, etc. However,
>>> it is multi player, accessible over the internet via telnet. Once you
>>> escape the asylum, instead of ending the game you wind up on the
>>> street outside the asylum. Across the street is a spooky old house,
>>> which was going to be where I implemented the Haunted House adventure.
>>> A bus pulls up to the curb every so often, and if you get on it takes
>>> you out to a clearing in the forest, where I was going to put Raakatu.
>>> Was thinking about ways to incorporate other great text adventures as
>>> well. Anyway, only Bedlam is complete, but it is fully playable.
>>> Making it multiplayer is interesting.. you can work together or
>>> against each other since all players are in the same world.
>>> 
>>> I can put a server online or make the source available if anyone would
>> like
>>> it.
>>> -Aaron
>>> 
>>> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Steve Batson
>>> wrote:
>>>> Just wondering if anyone still plays text adventures on the CoCo or any
>>>> other computer for that matter. I used to love Bedlam. Years back, I
>> was
>>>> considering writing my own Text Adventure, but never got around to it.
>>> With
>>>> all the cool graphics and sounds in games out there, think anyone would
>>>> even have an interest in text adventure games anymore?
>>>> 
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