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Danakate: [[WP:AES|←]]Created page with ‘ ”’HAUNT”’ was a straightforward but engagingly irreverent text-based mainframe game. It was created in OPS4 language in 1979 by John Laird.<ref>http://www….’


”’HAUNT”’ was a straightforward but engagingly irreverent text-based mainframe game. It was created in OPS4 language in 1979 by John Laird.<ref>http://www.lysator.liu.se/adventure/Mainframe_adventures.html</ref>

You explore a haunted house and encounter clues, wacky creatures and items throughout, including:

# rampaging moose
# elevator to nowhere
# please add…

The game ran on the old DEC-20 mainframes. Copies exist only on ancient tape drives in a university somewhere; although the author considered rewriting it in an updated language, that apparently did not happen. <ref>http://www.lysator.liu.se/adventure/Mainframe_adventures.html</ref>

Laird is now a professor at University of Michigan. <ref>http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/laird/</ref>

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(Via Wikipedia – New pages [en].)

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