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==Byte Magazine Article==
The following appeared in the December 1980 issue of Byte Magazine (Volume 5, Number 12). It appears to be written by Scott Adams himself. The article begins on page 192 of that issue of the magazine. <ref>{{cite web|title=The Internet Archive: Byte Magazine December 1980|url=https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1980-12}}</ref>
===A Short History===
Time fljes . The copyright date on
my game, Pirate's Adventure, reads
1978. It seems like yesterday, but it
has been two and a half years since I
started on my Adventures . . .
At the time I was working as a
systems programmer for Stromberg
Carlson when I was first introduced
to the classic Adventure game written
by Crowther and Woods to run on a
DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation)
PDP-10. After playing for only
a few minutes I was hooked. It took
almost ten days of early-morning and
late-evening sessions before I
achieved the coveted score of 350 and
the title of Grand Master. I had done
it--.I was a bona fide adventurer! Yet
it seemed unfair that such a
fascinating game was restricted to
such an expensive machine.
Back then, I had just gotten my
Radio Shack TRS-80 Level II computer,
and (having recently finished
Ply backgammon program) I was
looking for another good game to
write. The concept of · character
strings intrigued me, and I wanted a
game that used them. (Up to that
point, I had programmed primarily in
FORTRAN and assembly language,
neither of which can handle strings
easily.)
Adventure seemed to fit my needs
exactly . . But I didn't want to copy
someone else's program, and I was
afraid I wouldn't get much of an
Adventure in a 16 K-byte BASIC
computer-especially when the FORTRAN
version I played took about
300 K bytes!
I mentioned the idea of getting
some sort of Adventure into my small
machine to friends; fortunately, I was
not daunted by their laughter. After
all, I could remember when it was
supposedly impossible to get.a BASIC
int~rpreter to run on an 8080
==References==
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==External Links==
* [https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1980-12 The Internet Archive: Byte Magazine December 1980 Issue]
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