On 16-Dec-2002 John Clarke wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 04:47:19PM +1100, Ron Daniel wrote: >> Does anybody remember the name of the game which people used to play on >> their mainframes at university in the late seventies where you explored > > Advent? Also known as "Adventure" or "Colossal Cave". "You are in a > maze of twisty little passages, all alike". > > Source should be available at: > > ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/doc/misc/if-archive/games/source/advent.tar.Z
Debianites can apt-get install bsdgames and run /usr/games/adventure. This is the 'classic' 350 point version. There is also a larger Colossal Cave, extant to my personal knowledge on Xerox mainframes in 1980, which has a different endgame, expanded dungeon and a 550 point maximum score. There was a Unix port of that around as well, probably still sitting on a 5.25" floppy in my attic. Level9 (remember them?) did a differently-extended version for 8 bit micros (BBC, Spectrum etc.) in the later 80s. And there's also Zork. Zork was clearly inspired by Crowther & Woods original Colossal Cave, but went futher. If you're in a maze and some sod keeps nicking the stuff you drop to disambiguate the rooms, that's Zork. Zork was commercialised by Infocom, and with the aid of a z-code interpreter like Frotz you can play Zork I - the z-code was published as a freebie a few years ago. -- Jim Hague - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Play) Never trust a computer you can't lift. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
