The Adventure Family Tree (2024)

WalterGR

What an amazing work. Colossal Cave Adventure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure

emigre

This is fantastic. Thanks!

pugworthy

I am always pleased to see any reference to the original Crowther/Woods era Colossal Cave Adventure. Zork gets too much praise in my opinion compared to its ancestor which really defined the genre.

wduquette

We had a copy of the Fortran source for the PDP-11 when I was a teenager. My buddy and I managed to add a room: in the first room of the Maze of Twisty Little Passages All The Same, if you gave the command "out" (as one tried), you discovered that you were "Nowhere". "There is nothing in all directions." You could then enter "in" to go back to the Maze, or "get nothing" to add "nothing" to your inventory. There was a place in another room where your way was blocked by lava; our plan was to let you drop the "nothing" on the lava, and proceed, but we had run out of memory. (28K max!)

CobrastanJorji

I'm proud of you for building this. It's very high quality. There are academics out there being paid to do worse work on less important things. And look at those citations! I kind of suspect that in a century or two, some historian working on an early computing history project is going to stumble upon this and toast your name.

Thoreandan

TIL that Knuth made a Literate Programming port of Adventure in 2002.

mikerg87

First of all. fantastic! As documented in the book _Soul of a New Machine_, Adventure plays a central role in the bring up of the DG "Eagle" / MV8000 machine. It seems to not list it (even if no copies survive) would be a gap.