Re: Encyclopedia Frobozzica - where'd it go?


23 Jun 1995 09:29:36 GMT

In article <DABy00.LKx@midway.uchicago.edu>,
Steppin [MOF][DUMF] <grruffin@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>A few years ago I had mailed them the text files based on my original
>Encyclopedia Frobozzica project (ie I don't think I ever finished revising
>it or anything like that), and I never even did see what they ended up
>doing with it at ZorkMUD, mainly because it was a MUD so different from

Currently it's sitting in a filing cabinet in a disused toilet in an
unlit basement with a sign on the door marked "Beware of the Grue".

I believe it was planned to do a proper reader for it, as opposed to
"ef <subject>". Then certain entries could be modified and added to fit
continuity, and people could have access to it. Unfortunately certain
things have priority. (Getting (&*^(^ puzzles written and coded springs
to mind :)

>what I was used to that I never caught on.
>In any case, I must have the text files around here somewhere, and I imagine
And if you don't, we could get you a copy :)

--OH "Yes: We are still gonna be open RSN"

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