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Subject: Portland Commodore Users Group Special Event - Get Lamp Screening
with Guest Jason Scott Sept. 9 & Zork II Giveaway
From: "PDXCUG.org" <pdxcug(at)pdxcug.org>
Date: Thu, September 2, 2010 12:29 pm
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Hi PDXCUG Fans,
The Portland Commodore Users Group (PDXCUG.org) is proud to present a night with Jason Scott, a digital historian and archivist who specializes in early microcomputer history and dial-up bulletin board systems. He is the webmaster of textfiles.com, a collection of BBS-era textfiles that has been open to the public since 1998. In 2001, he began filming a documentary about BBSes called "BBS: The Documentary", an 8-episode mini-series about BBSes spanning 25 years and totalling five and a half hours in length.
Now, Jason has a new film about text adventure games (think Zork), called "Get Lamp" (http://getlamp.com). He interviewed dozens of creators, players, and scholars about the experience and effect of text adventures in this documentary and is willing to share his adventure with you at this very special event, brought to you by the Portland Commodore Users Group. So pick up the coin, "Go North", then "Go West" because we'll be gathering at Backspace in old town Portland, Oregon (115 NW 5th Ave.) on Sept. 9, 2010 @7:00 p.m.
ZORK II Giveaway - we'll be raffling off a new, shrinkwrapped copy of Zork II for the Commodore 64. Good luck!
For more information, please visit http://www.pdxcug.org
Event Details:
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Portland Commodore Users Group Special Event
Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010 @7:00 pm
Location: Backspace 115 NW 5th Ave. Portland, OR
Meeting Agenda
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- Welcome: general announcements and welcome to guests
- Announcements
- Feature Presentation: Get Lamp screening
- Q&A: Members and guests can ask questions or view additional bonus content.
- Raffle / Giveaway: How about winning a shrinkwrapped copy of Zork II? Oh, yeah!
- Game time: We'll have Zork available for play on a Commodore 64 computer.
- Ground Kontrol: After the meeting winds down, we'll all head on over to Ground Kontrol for some classic arcade gaming!
See you there,
-Goog
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PDXCUG is Portland's Official Commodore Users Group
Serving the greater metropolitan area - Portland, OR USA
Meetings every 2nd Thursday of the month
http://www.pdxcug.org