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  • Roberta Williams is a FRAUD

    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 26 17:44:31 2019
    My dad told me once that the original King's Quest code was his and that roberta williams stolen it from him.

    Then I went to google roberta williams only to find this topic claiming she is a fraud.

    I'm starting to believe my dad is right

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  • From rms@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 29 15:24:34 2019
    My dad told me once that the original King's Quest code was his and that >roberta williams stolen it from him.

    Ha, RW was not a programmer in any sense as I recall, but a writer. As
    for rights to the 'code' or the project as a whole, that's something else.

    rms

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Robin Adams on Fri May 15 23:05:59 2020
    On Sunday, March 1, 1998 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-8, Robin Adams wrote:
    [email protected] wrote:



    : Phantasmagoria was mildly entertaining, but not a game at all. Besides being
    : ridiculously easy, the woman robbed all puzzles from previous games - like the
    : get-key-with-nail-and-newspaper... it was an original puzzle... IN ALONE IN : THE DARK 2 !!!

    Um.. no. AFAIK, the first computer game to include that puzzle was Zork 2. It's a fairly well-known trick, anyway; I've read about it in many different places. I think it was in an Usborne book that I first encountered it.

    $3000 DEVIN HESTER

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