Clandestine copies of Adventure circulated inside IBM in the 80s ... the IT folks regularly scanned disks for the executables but apparently didn't understand simple encryption.
Some people had function keys set up with the first moves of the game because there wasn't a way to save the game state.
Peter Ludemann
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2026-07-21 18:18:38 UTC
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