At some point in time a bunch of us at the University of Alberta decided to do a multi-player adventure-style game (this was long before we had heard of MUDs). We talked to the systems people that ran the mainframe, and they agreed to provide a shared-memory segment that we could use for interprocess communication. Since I was the senior of the bunch, and had already done some stuff along the games line (I'm told (thanks Mark!) that this was around 1985, whereas Six/Fant was 1979 or earlier) I volunteered to put something together on my CP/M system as a suggestion. I did that, and called the result 'Quest'. I had a tiny "world" for it that showed what it could do, but it wasn't really a game. Unfortunately, none of the other people ever got around to doing much, and I was too stubborn to go in and do it all myself, so the whole thing fizzled out to nothing.
The files available here are:
| files.txt | intro to my stuff for the other participants |
| quest.txt | documentation on the quest libraries |
| q.g | header file for the libraries |
| qmain.drc | the main (world) program that uses the libraries |
| qcrt.drc | source for the screen-control routines |
| qparse.drc | source for the input parsing routines |
| qlist.drc | source for the list (semantics) routines |