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I think you meant Douglas Adams. Also, AFAIK he never released any for CP/M. Those began in the PC era.

chipotle_coyote 7y ago
No, he meant Scott Adams. Not the Dilbert guy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams_(game_designer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams_(game_designer) The Scott Adams adventure game series was published around 1978-83, and started on the TRS-80 Model I. I don't know if there were ever official CP/M ports, but they were certainly of that era.
- anonymousiam 7y ago
  Thanks for the clarification! I hacked TRS-80 Model I hardware (for a friend), but I never cared much for TRSDOS or Lifeboat so I have missed out on that software experience. I guess this was a port of the classic Adventure game to Tandy. I had the CP/M version (550 point Colossal Cave Adventure). I had played it even earlier on RT-11 where it took about half an hour to load from two 8" floppies.
aasasd 7y ago
The HHGttG game was directly released for CP/M: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_th... ‘Bureacracy’ seemingly wasn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucracy_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucracy_(video_game) ...but like HHGttG it targets the Z-Machine, and third-party interpreters for Z-Machine files have been written for probably every platform under the sun. It's also possible that executables from HHGttG can be repurposed. This post seems to support the latter approach: https://retrocosm.net/2011/01/03/z-machine-interpreter-for-cpm/ https://retrocosm.net/2011/01/03/z-machine-interpreter-for-c... Both games are maddeningly hard, btw. I don't think I finished either of them.
- beagle3 7y ago
  ... and you can't really finish them without access to the original material - some game puzzles can only be solved using accessories available in the box. A gentle kind of copy-restriction, that didn't stop you from making backups. Actually, it's the BBC controlling us from London.

No, he meant Scott Adams. Not the Dilbert guy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams_(game_designer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams_(game_designer) The Scott Adams adventure game series was published around 1978-83, and started on the TRS-80 Model I. I don't know if there were ever official CP/M ports, but they were certainly of that era.

anonymousiam 7y ago
Thanks for the clarification! I hacked TRS-80 Model I hardware (for a friend), but I never cared much for TRSDOS or Lifeboat so I have missed out on that software experience. I guess this was a port of the classic Adventure game to Tandy. I had the CP/M version (550 point Colossal Cave Adventure). I had played it even earlier on RT-11 where it took about half an hour to load from two 8" floppies.

aasasd 7y ago

The HHGttG game was directly released for CP/M: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_th... ‘Bureacracy’ seemingly wasn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucracy_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucracy_(video_game) ...but like HHGttG it targets the Z-Machine, and third-party interpreters for Z-Machine files have been written for probably every platform under the sun. It's also possible that executables from HHGttG can be repurposed. This post seems to support the latter approach: https://retrocosm.net/2011/01/03/z-machine-interpreter-for-cpm/ https://retrocosm.net/2011/01/03/z-machine-interpreter-for-c... Both games are maddeningly hard, btw. I don't think I finished either of them.

beagle3 7y ago
... and you can't really finish them without access to the original material - some game puzzles can only be solved using accessories available in the box. A gentle kind of copy-restriction, that didn't stop you from making backups. Actually, it's the BBC controlling us from London.