The most interesting text adventure I saw years ago (with online connection", was a person who had written a fairly good frame of a text adventure, and was also sitting at the keyboard choosing which macro to hit or typing things in. It took me awhile to catch on, because it was mostly automated.

I've looked at a lot of lisp books this week, and this didn't strike me as one I'd find useful, and particularly the sample chapter was uninteresting.

yes, that made me just want to run out and get one when I read that earlier. It has four rooms...

Write a windows like gui for it, and follow the path dos took upwards.

The plan is to put it on the z80 computer you built. https://archive.org/details/BuildYourOwnZ80ComputerSteveCiar...