Chicken Vomit

7th June 2001

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This is the home of Chicken Vomit - an implementation of Vulcan Venture for 80x24 serial terminals, written by Marke ``The Chief Slime Monster'' Fincher <mafincher@callnetuk.com> back in 1989 or somesuch year, at Warwick University. In these enlightened days, you'll probably have to run it under an xterm rather than a real terminal, but you can get some of the effect with

xterm -fg green -bg black -geom 80x24

Here's what I've got:

If you like Chicken Vomit, there's every chance you'll also like Marke's subsequent effort, Fishmonger. (I'm afraid I don't have Plughole - it seems to have disappeared.) And if you're into this kind of late-eighties retro-computing in general, especially if that's because you were at Warwick University at the time, you should check out the multi-user dungeon MUNDI.

Feedback to <mike@miketaylor.org.uk> is welcome!