"All 78 pages of it." “I was thrilled,” O’Dwyer told me, adding that none of the original programmers expected their filing had included a complete copy of all

"All 78 pages of it." “I was thrilled,” O’Dwyer told me, adding that none of the original programmers expected their filing had included a complete copy of all the code. Reunited with his code, Kershenblatt lovingly scanned in all 78 pages (at a local Staples store), and then uploaded the resulting files to Dropbox. This ran up against the limits of optical character recognition, O’Dwyer points out, and after exploring several ways to re-scan the results — O’Dwyer finally just decided to manually transcribe the PDFs himself." After posting those bits of the Adventure source, I went back and reread the article and I continue to be in disbelief that 'Kershenblatt [had to] lovingly scan in all 78 pages (at a local Staples store)' so I've just done a search for "advent.for" Fortran and, as I suspected, there are plenty of references to the game including the various/different versions, its origins, etc. Thus, I can only conclude that this story has to be a beat-up, for otherwise how could I find so many references with just one search? It seems to me that most of the versions and variations from its original concept/inception will be available with very little searching (after all, it was almost universally popular at one time due to the fact that it was just about the only game about). The disk that I mentioned in my previous post dates from the mid 1980s, so I'm now keen to find it and to check the lineage of the various games along with their variations and versions. If I recall correctly, I got these files as ZIPs from a BBS. You'll note a date reference of 01-JAN-77 in parts of code that I've posted (however, this file dates from around six years later). Finally, I've just cut-&-pasted the full listing of the source I posted earlier from my text editor into MS Word and it makes an interesting comparison with Kershenblatt's scans. With Word set to standard US Letter size pages with nominal 1 inch margins, I get the following: Ariel, 12-point, normal spacing: 79 pages (with the last four lines orphaning on page 80). Courier New, 12-point, normal spacing: 78 pages (with the last four lines orphaning on page 79). If the margins are extended to 1.25 inches all around then I get just over 83 pages for both (with 10 and 6 lines overlap respectfully on p84). That's a remarkable similarity methinks. I'd bet the code is almost identical in both instances.