OG PC/DOS cred I never knew I had

The year after I graduated from MIT I teamed up with a couple of my fraternity brothers to create the Computer Novel Construction Set. We licensed it to Hayden Software, who released it in 1985 and as far as I knew, nobody bought it.

My next startup did quite a bit better financially, and I pretty much forgot about the Computer Novel Construction Set. Until tonight -- for some reason I decided to Google it a few minutes ago.

To my surprise, it had more of a life than I ever knew. According the Interactive Fiction Wiki, it was An obscure and arguably the first text adventure creation program for the IBM PC. Released in 1985 it is a fore runner to today's point and click authoring systems, using a series of DOS based menus and pop-up windows to create your world and all the objects and characters that populate it. CNCS gives you the power to create games much more advanced than any of the games released by Hayden Software themselves at that time.

Even better, according to the IFWiki, one of the most notable games created with the CNCS was Virgin Schoolgirl.

I am bursting with pride right now.

You fuckin nerds make the world go round. Thanks for that.

Leisure Suit Larry is a mag. It all makes sense now.

I went to some dead shows in ‘85, so there.

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Originally Posted by The Suit

Even better, according to the IFWiki, one of the most notable games created with the CNCS was Virgin Schoolgirl.

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"you are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike"

I developed a palm pilot tele psych consult back in the 90's at mgh. Did a MIT collab too.

Now telemedicine is ubiquitous.

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Originally Posted by Mazderati

Leisure Suit Larry is a mag. It all makes sense now.

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I played LSL.

But man, Virgin schoolgirl sounds way more fun

I majored in beer and babes in college so I'm the demographic and I thank you for your efforts.

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Originally Posted by Core Shot

But man, Virgin schoolgirl sounds way more fun

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I think i'd prefer Custer's Revenge.

Time to get paid.

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Really cool. I was one of a bunch of people behind R00lz. Before there was alt.2600 we were kids who wanted to play games for free so we hacked Wizardry, Ultima, Taipan, Rescue Raiders. Never did touch Leisure Suit Larry

Edit. We used a hexadecimal editor. I can't even remember what it was called