Starting from Scratch (was Re: OT: Modern college education

From: Hans Franke <franke_at_sbs.de>
Date: Fri Oct 23 07:47:13 1998

> You play the game like this:
> 1) Scout for a surface deposit of Coal and start mining coal.
> 2) Scout for (surface) deposit of iron ore and start mining ore.
> 3) Using Coal + Ore build Pig Iron
> 4) Using Pig Iron build picks and shovels to increase your
> mining efficiency.
> 5) Build Smelter/Foundry
> 6) Locate lime and concrete develop cement.
> 7) Collect Sand and use with cement to build an iron casting apparatus
> 8) Using the sand casting build a steam boiler and steam engine
> 9) Using the steam engine and iron casting build metal stamping
> 10) Using Steam engine and metal stamping build rail road.
> 11) Start mining below ground and locate Copper.
> 12) Build a copper foundry.
> 13) Using metal stamping build wire puller (makes wire)
> 14) Using iron, and wire build generator.
> 15) Using generator create electricity.
> 18) Mine tungsten and build lightbulb.
> ...
> First one to a PDP-8 wins :-)

What about creating a Game ?
Of course all Graphics has to be ASCII :)

Gruss
H.

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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
Received on Fri Oct 23 1998 - 07:47:13 BST

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