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	Title: (What's New) Deadline
	Author: BYTE staff
	Source: BYTE, v7(10)
	Date: October 1982
	Transcription by Steve Derby
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Murder Mystery</h2>
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Deadline is a murder mystery game created by Infocom, developer of the
game Zork. Deadline casts you in the role of a detective
challenged to solve a murder within a 12-hour deadline. To help you nab
the culprit, Deadline comes with a dossier filled with evidence critical to
your assignment: lab reports, physical evidence discovered near the victim,
fingerprints, interviews with suspects, an 8-by-10 photo of the scene of the
crime, and a detective's manual. Deadline uses an English-based vocabulary
of more than 600 words for a conversational interaction between you
and the computer. Actual playing time may run 20 or more hours, according
to the company.

Deadline costs $49.95 and will run on a variety of computers, including the
Apple, the IBM Personal Computer, and the NEC PC-8000. A version for
CP/M-based systems and the PDP-l I costs $59.95. Deadline is manufactured
by Infocom Inc., 55 Wheeler St., Cambridge, MA 02138, (617) 492-1031.

Circle 532 on inquiry card.
