If you ever encountered a Fortan-77 port where the room that had 'frozen rivers of orange stone' also had another bit in the description: "A recently carved message on the wall reads, 'Artoo Detoo was here!'.

That was me. On the engineering filesystem of GEISCO (General Electric Information Services Co Mark III foreground, the thing using Honeywell equipment that later became GEnie) ... still a kid I leveraged the debugger to root-like access for a time and it was fun. I did a global search for Adventure and found it in 4 separate 'private' employee-user places, and patched them all. ~1981.

Hey, I remember "Artoo Detoo was here" from GEnie!

For the past 10-ish years I've been searching in vain for a few of the games from GEnie, including "Blackdragon" and "Dor Sageth", if anyone has any leads...

> Hey, I remember "Artoo Detoo was here" from GEnie!

WOW. You just made my day (actually year, but I'm embarrassed to say so), thank you!

I patched copies in 4 different places. So someone DID eventually adapt one of those versions I patched into a 'door' game on GEnie. It feels kind of odd, because I have been watching caving and surface rock art videos lately where modern explorers are quick to brand things as 'vandalism', even if they do not obscure the other, and even inscriptions from 1888. It makes me wonder, what year exactly did 'vandalism' begin?

So in Colossal Cave, was my "Artoo Detoo was here" rock art, or vandalism?

My buddy and I added a room to the entrance of the Little Twisty Maze of Passages All The Same. If you said “out” having just entered the maze, you went to a room that said, “You are out. There is nothing in all directions.” “In” would return you to the maze.

Our plan was to let you say, “get nothing”, and then carry “nothing” to the Majestic View and drop it on the lava flow so that you could cross to a new area; but we only had 28k of memory and and had to abandon the idea,