Date   : Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:15:13 +0100
From   : "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>
Subject: Re: CAVE

Thanks for that, I am told it was published by XOB and I found a reference
after Conducting A Search On Google (as I believe we are required to say nowadays
to avoid being sued) which linked to a PDF file of a document from 1987 mentioning
it.

I haven't found a copy although I will search the MDFS next time I fire it up, it
could always be that I have been sitting on a copy for years!

Best wishes,



Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: Joel Rowbottom
To:  "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>,bbc-micro@...
Sent:  Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:35:39 +0100
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] CAVE

At 15:11 17/08/2006, you wrote:

>Does anybody know anything about this Econet game,
>the only information I have is that it is a multi-user text-based
>adventure game running over Econet.  Is there a copy anywhere?

ICBW, but I think this originated at QEGS in Wakefield. Certainly it 
was hacked around a lot there by a guy called Brian Butterworth (no 
relation to Brandon in case any of you know him).

There was certainly a later version called "Arena", an even later one 
called "Arena II" which may not have made it into the wild but which 
I may have on a floppy somewhere. Both relied heavily on open files 
and "ON ERROR" statements to trap the open files messages. There were 
a lot of GOTO statements too - a veritably horrible rat's nest.


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