You are in a maze of little twisting passages, all different

[Mark L. Chang]

Peter - 

That was probably from my constantly (and automagically) rotating
signature file. It read:
You are in a maze of little twisting passages, all different.
   - Zork I

As cited, it was from Zork I, an excellent game from Infocom. I do believe
that they released it into the public domain some years ago, along with
other Zorks. 

FYI, there is a standardized game language out there that you can create
your own games with. There are compilers for just about any platform, and
there are players for just about every single platform
(ie. Win,Un*x,Palm,etc.) I've written one game that was based on our
office layout here at work, and it was pretty funny.

Mark

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Peter McConnel wrote:

> it was the '70s and i played a dungeon game on a Digital PDP 8(later on a
> PDP 11). the game interface was verbal only. sentences describing where you
> were and what was happening came up as you navigated the maze. left right up
> down forward and backward were the directional possibilities, and you would
> be prompted to pick up an item, or kill a dwarf, etc. i really don't
> remember
> much but the email signature on your Q list email: "You are in a maze of
> little twisting passages, all different" was the first prompt at the
> beginning of the game...
> i would be very interested in jogging my memory further on this. Who's email
> signature is this?

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute, but
let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour.
That's relativity.
   - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)