From: bmartino@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Bob Martino)
Subject: Old Eamon System
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:18:21 GMT

Folks,

Back in the *OLD* days, long, long ago, I had an Apple II+
computer.

Now, this wasn't quite as bad as it sounds, boys and girls. 
 In those days before running water and indoor plumbing, we
didn't know what a great home computer system was.  So, we made
do with our 48k RAM (or 64k, if we were lucky), and we were
*THANKFUL!*

Anyway, There was a group around called AAA - the Apple Avocation
Alliance.  These folks would collect and distribute public
domain software for the Apple computer (does this bring back
any memories?).  One of the games they had was called EAMON.

EAMON was a D&D type game.  You had a character with three
attributes (strenght, dexterity, chasisma) who could learn
spells.  He/she would leave the basic disk where (s)he was
stored and go off to other disks containing dungeon adventures.
(places like Cave of the Mind, Nuclear Nightmare, The Death
Star, Lair of the Minotaur, and scores of others).
There, the character would slay monsters (as opposed to solving
puzzles), gain treasure, and even could find friendly 'characters'
who would follow him around and help him fight.  The coolest
thing about the whole deal was that it was all written in
basic.  You could create your own adventure using a special
adventure-making disk, and get into the code to create all kinds
of special effects that only worked with your adventure.

Does this ring a bell with anyone?

Anyway, the other day I was giving away my old Apple II+ to
my sister's family so her two boys could have a computer.  As
I fondly booted up the Eamon game, I had a thought:  What if
someone would create something similar for the Macintosh?  Sure,
it would be all in text, but it could be fun making your own
adventures and High School kids could use it to learn programming,
and Macpascal is a pretty good language to write it in, and...

Hey!

So maybe I'll give this project a try.  Maybe.
What do all of you think?  Does it sound worth doing?
Would any of you be willing to pay a few bucks for it as
"shareware?"
Is the old AAA still around?  If so, what's their address?
I could use some more adventures and stuff.

More important, has anyone ALREADY done something like this?
I'd hate to waste the effort.  Is there any good source of
public domain (or shareware) programs for the Mac out there?
Something like the AAA?

So many questions, so few answers.  I await eagerly some
response.

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