KansasFest, the venerable Apple II gathering running for a quarter of a century, hosts a recurring contest called "HackFest." The winner this year was none other than Margaret Anderson, the author of four Eamons (Peg's Place, The Beginner's Forest, Treasure Island, and The Pirate's Cave), who submitted an "Eamon mapper" as her entry. While the site is not presently hosting a disk image of her winning entry, it appears that disk images of entries are posted from time to time at http://www.kansasfest.org/hackfest/.
Margaret Anderson also wrote an article "Mapping the Unknown: An Adventure in Eamon" about her entry in the September 2013 issue of Juiced.GS. I don't have a subscription to Juiced.GS, so I'm unable to describe the contents of the article. But I'd love to hear a synopsis in the comments (or see a disk image of Ms. Anderson's entry!).
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I haven't seen Anderson's program itself, but I did just read her article in Juiced.GS, so — five years on, here's a synopsis. :)
Anderson says she wanted a program that would let her walk through a map room by room without the distraction of artifacts or monsters, and automatically record it all as an aid to mapping. The program she wrote for KansasFest prints the description of each room, lists the exits, and gives a command prompt for which direction to go next; it also lets the user enter a number to jump directly to that room. It works for Main Program versions 5, 6, and 7, and currently supports six-direction (but not ten-direction) movement.
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