Yes. Not as bad as the midwest, but the danger is not trivial, either. I think the plains of North Texas are more prone to them than other parts, but they are certainly not unheard of here in Central Texas.

One summer when I worked over there, there was a lot of talk about the Ring of Fire. As I understood it, it was a huge area where a high pressure became stable, and caused the temperatures up to over 40 degrees for weeks.

Was that just a one time thing, or is it reoccurring?



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On 26 Feb 2022, Bj”rn Felten said the following...

Yes. Not as bad as the midwest, but the danger is not trivial, either think the plains of North Texas are more prone to them than other par but they are certainly not unheard of here in Central Texas.

One summer when I worked over there, there was a lot of talk about
the Ring of Fire. As I understood it, it was a huge area where a high pressure became stable, and caused the temperatures up to over 40
degrees for weeks.

Was that just a one time thing, or is it reoccurring?

Along with other impressively named weather patterns such as the "Bomb Cyclone," that is a recurring phenomena.

Jeff.

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On 28 Feb 2022, Mike Powell said the following...

When I was younger, we used to visit some of the local caves with s and youth groups. One thing that fascinated me was that one of the caves
we visited in Southern Indiana was considered to be a part of the Mammoth
Cave chain. It was fascinating to me considering that a rather lar river, the Ohio, runs between them. :)

Same here. The Mammoth Cave system was the inspiration for "Colossal Cav Adventure," the first interactive fiction computer game (1976). Develope a PDP-10, the author used maps and recollections of his own Mammoth Cave explorations to populate it, and the original version had no sorcery or dragons or the like. It was an attempt to let people experience Mammoth without having to actually go into it.

That is pretty awesome! That would be neat to port as a door game. I assume it was text based?

It was indeed text-based. I'm not sure what would need to be done to make it
a door game, but the original was in FORTRAN and can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/Neko250/adventure

There's a version widely available for the PDP-8 (and therefore simh and therefore the PiDP-8), but I'm pretty sure that's the later one with all of
the D&D stuff added in.

There are FORTRAN compilers for DOS, such as g77. As Colossal Cave Adventure was a single-player game originally intended to play on a teletype, I would imagine that if you could create a door by capturing stdin and stdout of a running DOS program, that would do it. I'm not sure about user-unique save files, though.

Jeff.

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