On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Jim Hague wrote: > 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.
While present on bsd systems, it might interest people to know that this game pre-dates Unix. It was written at Stanford in 1968. Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew McNaughton In Sydney and looking for work [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://staff.scoop.co.nz/andrew/cv.doc Mobile: +61 422 753 792 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
