44 points by shakna 12 hours ago | 18 comments
o11c 8 hours ago
https://mipmip.org/advfamily/advfamily.html
Some important versions: WOOD0350 (added most of the feature we know about; allegedly there was an early 250-point version in the wild but it's poorly documented), GILL0350 (C port, made it into bsdgames among others), WOOD0430 (the final version by him, what open-adventure is based on). But several other lineages are also well known (you can see .
The link submitted is a bit of a mess. src/ contains multiple versions of CROW0000 (which had been thought lost prior to 2005). But the various images are for other versions, and I haven't checked the binaries.
If you're interested in hacking your own version of adventure, the best by technical measures (reproducibility, sane file format, etc.) is:
https://gitlab.com/esr/open-adventure
(But the major change of file format does mean it becomes difficult to apply changes from other members of the Adventure family. This is also a problem for some others though!)
WillAdams 59 minutes ago
http://literateprogramming.com/adventure.pdf
(the source re-written as a Literate Program by Dr. Donald Knuth)
Wish I still had the teletype prints of when I played it on an HP 3000 minicomputer at a local college --- did finally finish the game using a port to Windows.
My wife quite enjoyed _Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet_ which is one of the references from Wikipedia and covers the backstory in great detail.
musicale 9 hours ago
And the 2023 graphical remake (from Ken and Roberta Williams [King's Quest, etc.] no less):
svat 9 hours ago
Also there are many versions/implementations:
anthk 7 hours ago
The Puny Inform version will run on every computer since the 70's with a ZMachine interpreter. Even the ZX, C64 with OZmoo and so on.
wduquette 1 hour ago