Early PC software, forked to 'Early PC Games'

[Eric Smith]

Scott wrote:
> and also Microsoft Adventure, which is the regular 'UNIX' adventure
> game ('xyzzy' password, etc.) ported to the PC on a bootable diskette
> (no DOS required).  I knew it first as 'Microsoft Adventure' due to
> early exposure to it on dad's PC.  People from the UNIX culture would
> obviously object to this name.

I don't see why.  It's not fundamentally a "Unix game".  It originated
on TOPS-10 on a DECsystem-10 (PDP-10 processor).

The Apple II edition of Microsoft Adventure was the first commercial
software I ever purchased, though I'd already almost completed the
original version on the DECsystem-10.  I thought it was nice being able
to run it at home.  At the time, the game cost almost two week's
take-home pay (part-time fast-food job).  Soon followed by Zork II;
I'd already played Zork I on a friend's computer.

Eric