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"Harry McCracken is not the name of a Cold War superspy, but a man who is now
the tech editor of
Fast Company and, in his younger days, a developer of
games for Radio Shack's TRS-80 microcomputer. McCracken recently went back to
have a look at his first game,
Arctic Adventure, which he wrote when he was
16 around 1980-81—a text adventure inspired by the work of Scott Adams in
particular, a pioneering designer of the
Adventure series of games for the
TRS-80.
As was common in the 80s,
Arctic Adventure was distributed in book form. This
was
The Captain 80 Book of BASIC Adventures: pages of type-it-yourself BASIC
code, each entry its own adventure game."
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*** Xanni ***
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
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