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

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