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| The Edgar Mauk Awards
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| Since the "Treffen" Meeting in the year 2000, there have been awards in recognition of contributions to the European TI community.
| | Tunnels of Doom was a 1982 module made by Texas Instruments for the TI99/4 computer and was created by Kevin Kenney. The module contained code which required the loading of game data from cassette or disk. A sample adventure was sold with the module on disk or tape but subsequent adventure databases were developed by individual users using back-engineered editor programs. |
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| These awards are named after Edgar (Eddy) Mauk (deceased in 1992), a keen TI user from Bavaria.
| | The module did not have an immediately playable game when you plugged it in, it required you to load a database from tape (slow) or from disk which was somewhat expensive (at the time) as costly peripherals were required which were not widely owned. |
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| | A UK computer game magazine was unimpressed and only gave the module three stars out of five, but it has proved popular with TI owners and has remained in play with quite a number of user written adventures being made available. The game has been so popular it has been recreated in java. |
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| | 2000 (treffen 15) || Gent (BE) || Hardware || Michael Becker || D || SNUG cards
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| | || || Software || Paolo Bagnaresi || I || E/A Software
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| | || || Internet || Thierry Nouspikel || CH || Site: TI-Tech
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| | || || Newsletter || Marcel de Gier || NL || TIjdingen (TIGG)
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| | || || Community || Stephen Shaw || UK || TI in the UK
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| | 2001 (treffen 17) || Nottingham (UK) || Hardware || Thierry Nouspikel || CH || IDE card
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| | || || Software || Harald Glaab || D || DSR for SNUG
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| | || || Internet || Fabrice Montupet || F || Site: TI99 Forever
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| | || || Newsletter || Wolfgang Bertsch || D || Errorfree disks
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| | || || Community || Berry Harmsen || NL || USA Contacts
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| | 2002 (treffen 16) || Wuppertal (DE)|| Hardware || Michael Becker || D || SNUG Cards
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| | || || Software || Fred Kaal || NL || SCSI software
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| | || || Internet || Dirk Seinfeld || D || Site: Bromosel
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| | || || Newsletter || Paul Saunders || UK || TI*MES (TIUGUK)
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| | || || Community || Roger Muijs || B || Organising Treffen
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| | 2003 (treffen 18) || Wenen (AT) || Hardware || Thierry Nouspikel || CH || USB Card
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| | || || Software || Wolfgang Bertsch || D || TIllionaire
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| | || || Informatie || Alan Bray || UK || Site: Bricktop
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| | || || Community || Kurt Radowitsch || AT || Organising Treffen
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| | 2004 (treffen 19) || Birkenau (DE) || Hardware || Michael Becker || D || SNUG Card
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| | || || Software || Fred Kaal || NL || TI & PC Software
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| | || || Informatie || Marcel de Gier || NL || Tijdingen (TIGG)
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| | || || Community || Oliver Arnold || D || Organising Treffen
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| | 2005 (treffen 20) || Venlo (NL) || Computer || Wolfgang Bertsch || D || TI Software
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| | || || Community || Richard Twyning || UK || Support TIUGUK
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| | 2006 (treffen 21) || Flensburg (DE) || Computer || Fred Kaal || NL || TI & PC Software
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| | || || Community || Jens-Eike Hartwig || D || Organising Treffen
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| | 2007 (treffen 22) || Hilversum (NE) || Computer || Thierry Nouspikel || CH || TI Hardware
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| | || || Community || Marcel de Gier || NL || Tijdingen (TIGG)
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| | 2008 (treffen 23) || Paderborn (DE) || rowspan="2" | Computer || Mark Robert Wills || UK || rowspan="2" | Site: Planet 99
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| | || || Torben Anderson || DK
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| | || || rowspan="2" | Community || Martin Zeddies || D || rowspan="2" | Organising Treffen
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| | || || Jörg Kirstan || D
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| | 2009 (treffen 24) || Wenen (AT) || Computer || Filip van Vooren || B || Transfer Games
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| | || || Community || Kurt Radowitsch || AT || Organising Treffen
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| | 2010 (treffen 25) || Nottingham (UK) || Computer || Gary Smith || UK || Design New Geneve
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| | || || Community || Trevor Stevens || UK || Support TIUGUK
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| | 2011 (treffen 26) || Rome (IT) || Computer || Mark Roberts Wills || UK || Turbo Forth Module
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| | || || Community || Ermanno Betori || I || Organising Treffen
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| | || || Community || Klaus Lukaschek || AT || Italian TI Group
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| | 2012 (treffen 27) || Augsburg (DE) || Computer || Michael Zapf || D || MESS Development
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| | || || Community || Oliver Arnold || D || Organising Treffen
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| | || || Community || Ciro Barile || IT || Italian TI Group
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| | 2013 (treffen 28) || Eindhoven (NL) || Computer || Fred Kaal || NL || Developing
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| | || || Community || Ronald Kalwij || NL || Years supporting TIGG
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| Details courtesy of Google Translate from http://www.ti-99.nl/ema.php extracted December 2014.
| | Java: Tunnels of Doom Reboot (http://www.dreamcodex.com/todr.php) by Howard Kistler (with Kevin Kenney's agreement), also has a conversion tool to allow the older third party adventures to be converted. |
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| | Main gameplay was through the module, while game items- names, values, powers, graphics - were stored in the external databases and could be edited using verioud programs which were developed by third parties. |
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| | Although the Wizard character (or equivalent- the name could be amended) had limited defence capacity, the base coding left a gap for the Wizard - or any other player- to have armour with a rating of up to 37. |
TUNNELS OF DOOM
Tunnels of Doom was a 1982 module made by Texas Instruments for the TI99/4 computer and was created by Kevin Kenney. The module contained code which required the loading of game data from cassette or disk. A sample adventure was sold with the module on disk or tape but subsequent adventure databases were developed by individual users using back-engineered editor programs.
The module did not have an immediately playable game when you plugged it in, it required you to load a database from tape (slow) or from disk which was somewhat expensive (at the time) as costly peripherals were required which were not widely owned.
A UK computer game magazine was unimpressed and only gave the module three stars out of five, but it has proved popular with TI owners and has remained in play with quite a number of user written adventures being made available. The game has been so popular it has been recreated in java.
Java: Tunnels of Doom Reboot (http://www.dreamcodex.com/todr.php) by Howard Kistler (with Kevin Kenney's agreement), also has a conversion tool to allow the older third party adventures to be converted.
Main gameplay was through the module, while game items- names, values, powers, graphics - were stored in the external databases and could be edited using verioud programs which were developed by third parties.
Although the Wizard character (or equivalent- the name could be amended) had limited defence capacity, the base coding left a gap for the Wizard - or any other player- to have armour with a rating of up to 37.