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[k_baker]

Hi,

Thank you for replying. I've just restarted my computer and it now works! Hurray!

Guess I was just not doing something properly. :crazy:

Thank you for your help anyway! x

how to start the game which program do i need?

[Frodo]

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how to start the game which program do i need?
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According to the review, you need WinFrotz Interpretar - http://www.abandonia.com/utility/WinFrotz.zip

k:

if he created it in 1976, how did he know about lord of the rings

if he created it in 1976, how did he know about lord of the rings...it didn't come until 1978

[Mighty Midget]

No need to ask the same question twice <_<

LotR was first published in the mid 50's, so there you have your answer.

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if he created it in 1976, how did he know about lord of the rings...it didn't come until 1978
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LOTR first edition was 1955

I played this around 1977 on a DEC PDP-11/60 at Edinburgh University - my big brother was interning on a research project. It was called ADVENT then, because that machine only had six character upper case filenames. Spent hours trying to map it out - that maze of little twisty passages that all look alike is half the map.

There was another machine there that had TREK on it. Much more advanced.

Plugh!

[maximumcool]

This is such a classic game it has often been referred to in various things. For example: In one of the Tom Clancy novels, 90% sure it is "Patriot Games" the main character of Jack Ryan mutters to himself "You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike."
Also in Windows (I think 95) there was some sort of easter egg involving typing Xyzzy several times.

Anyone else know of any other references made to this game in music, literature, art, or the wonderful world of computers? :-)

[El Quia]

Don't laugh at me, but I could never enter the caves :S. But, truth to be told, I never had much patience with this game, although I played lots of text adventures. It's just that this one didn't catch my interest.