pearl@porthos.rutgers.edu (Starbuck) (09/19/88)
Howdy! I am looking for the original ADVENTURE, preferably written C or Pascal. Any pointers? Thanks! Steve Stephen Pearl (Starbuck) Work: (201)932-2443 Home: (201)246-3927 UUCP: rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!pearl ARPA: pearl@aramis.rutgers.edu US MAIL: LPO 12749 CN 5064, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 QUOTES: "What is Starbuck-ing?" -Adultress 19 "Works for me!" -Rick Hunter (The Cop, not the Robotech Defender)
cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) (09/19/88)
In article <Sep.18.15.35.56.1988.6658@porthos.rutgers.edu> pearl@porthos.rutgers.edu (Starbuck) writes: }Howdy! } }I am looking for the original ADVENTURE, preferably written C or }Pascal. Any pointers? Thanks! "preferably" is a bit odd -- either you want the original or you don't. The original was written in Fortran; it was not-long-after redone pretty extensively, again in Fortran, and it is this second version that is the first that really leaked out to the world at large. I think it (the revised version) got posted to comp.sources.games a while back and so can probably be found in someones archives somewhere. For the record (most folks know this, I think) Will Crowther invented it all singlehandedly and wrote the first version at BBN; Don Woods at SRI did the revision (and expansion) [I don't know the exact details of the revision, since it happened after Willy left here for PARC] __ / ) Bernie Cosell /--< _ __ __ o _ BBN Sys & Tech, Cambridge, MA 02238 /___/_(<_/ (_/) )_(_(<_ cosell@bbn.com
play@cwi.nl (The MC Funhouse Master) (09/19/88)
In article <29787@bbn.COM> cosell@BBN.COM (Bernie Cosell) writes: > In article <Sep.18.15.35.56.1988.6658@porthos.rutgers.edu> pearl@porthos.rutgers.edu (Starbuck) writes: > }I am looking for the original ADVENTURE, preferably written C or > }Pascal. Any pointers? Thanks! > > "preferably" is a bit odd -- either you want the original or you > don't. The original was written in Fortran; it was not-long-after > redone pretty extensively, again in Fortran, and it is this second > version that is the first that really leaked out to the world at > large. I think it (the revised version) got posted to > comp.sources.games a while back and so can probably be found in > someones archives somewhere. No, it has never been posted to the net (at least not the last 10 years or so). But the original program has been rewritten in C. Once at UCLA (this had a beautiful bug: tell lauren@ucla-security that fatal bug 25 happened), but this was never distributed in source. Another rewrite was done at rand (jim@rand-unix). It might also be that the first was based on the second. The sources for the second are in all BSD distributions (and as it does not contain AT&T code it might be publicly available, though I am not sure). On the other hand the source is not much to look at, containing all kinds of labels like L00080 etc. -- Game Keeper Mail: play@cwi.nl
ech@poseidon.UUCP (Edward C Horvath) (09/22/88)
From article <Sep.18.15.35.56.1988.6658@porthos.rutgers.edu>, by pearl@porthos.rutgers.edu (Starbuck): > Howdy! > I am looking for the original ADVENTURE, preferably written C or > Pascal. Any pointers? Thanks! > Stephen Pearl (Starbuck) The original was written in (*GASP*) FORTRAN. Are you SURE you want it...? =Ned Horvath=
tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) (09/26/88)
In article <508@poseidon.UUCP> ech@poseidon.UUCP (Edward C Horvath) writes:
-From article <Sep.18.15.35.56.1988.6658@porthos.rutgers.edu>, by pearl@porthos.rutgers.edu (Starbuck):
-- Howdy!
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-- I am looking for the original ADVENTURE, preferably written C or
-- Pascal. Any pointers? Thanks!
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-- Stephen Pearl (Starbuck)
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-The original was written in (*GASP*) FORTRAN. Are you SURE you want it...?
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-=Ned Horvath=
Wasn't it even so that it was written in (come help me die) MUDDLE ?
Anyway, the source (Fortran) I've seen is not a waste. It's documented (!)
in an understandable way (comments in the source code) which will help
anyone writing an adventure of their own in a more strucutured language.