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The Crowther and Woods 'Colossal Cave Adventure' game: Here's where it all began
- k310 2y agoThis prompted me to do a web search and disk search. While the original program was written in Fortran, I found "C" versions on disk. Possible sources: David Kinder's guide to Adventure downloads at the Interactive Fiction Archive [0] Index: if-archive/games/source [1] The apparent pre-history of the game Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther's Original “Adventure” in Code and in Kentucky [2] (a very long and detailed article) What looks to be the original code in Fortran [3] [0] https://rickadams.org/adventure/e_downloads.html https://rickadams.org/adventure/e_downloads.html [1] https://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive/games/source/ https://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive/games/source/ [2] http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/001/2/000009/000009.html http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/001/2/000009/000009... [3] https://github.com/wh0am1-dev/adventure https://github.com/wh0am1-dev/adventure Quick search. Corrections welcome.