From: ekman@netcom.com (Crossly the Glad-Eyed Bear)
Subject: Re: adventure
Organization: Home for the Terminally Infirm
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:38:46 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.190723.12582@tera.com> david@tera.com (David Callahan) writes:
>
>On my UNIX box is a game called adventure that
>begins: ``You are standing at the end of a road before a small 
>brick building.'' It is a tty-oriented game involving very
>simple english commands and a description of their effects.
>
>Is there a version of this available for IBM PC's
>and if so, how might I acquire a copy?

If anyone ever gets around to creating an FAQ list for this group, this
question ought to be in it.

The original Adventure was written by Willie Crowther, at BBN, with
enhancements by Don Woods at Stanford AI Lab, in FORTRAN, for the then
popular DEC 10.  Some time later, Kent Blackett, at DEC, ported it to
the PDP-11/70, and this version was widely distrubuted by DECUS.  I took
Blackett's code and slightly hacked it so it would compile and run in
the MS-DOS environment.  Source code, executable, data files, and docs
are contained in the file adv350.zip, which can be obtained by anonymous
ftp from the following sites:

Host bigmax.ulowell.edu

    Location: /msdos/Games/TextAd
           FILE -rw-r--r--     142110  Jan 30 1992  adv350.zip

Host gdr.bath.ac.uk

    Location: /simtel-cdrom/games/misc
           FILE -r-xr-xr-x     142110  Jan 30 1992  adv350.zip

Host gmdzi.gmd.de

    Location: /if-archive/games/pc
           FILE -rw-rw-r--     142110  Nov 12 16:38  adv350.zip

Host leif.thep.lu.se

    Location: /pub/Misc
           FILE -rw-r--r--     142110  Sep  1 14:20  adv350.zip

Host pinus.slu.se

    Location: /msdos.nfs.sunet.se/mirrors/games/misc
           FILE -r-----r--     142110  Jan 31 1992  adv350.zip

Host sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de

    Location: /pub/msdos/games
           FILE -rw-rw-r--     142110  Jan 30 1992  adv350.zip

Host wuarchive.wustl.edu

    Location: /mirrors/msdos-games/TextAd
           FILE -r--r--r--     142110  Jan 29 1992  adv350.zip


Microsoft produced, and IBM distributed, a commercial version, with one
added room.  This version was copy protected; you had to boot from the
game disk to play, and reboot to escape.

Someone else, I think it  might have been Electronic Arts, produced yet
another commerical version with a couple of added locations and puzzles.

A much enhanced version, with more locations and puzzles, eventually
appeared.  I have no idea who did this one, but it is in the file
adv551.zip, which can be found at the following archive sites:

Host athene.uni-paderborn.de

    Location: /pcsoft/msdos/games
           FILE -rw-r--r--     121240  Feb 22 1992  adv551.zip

Host ipc1.rrzn.uni-hannover.de

    Location: /pub/msdos/games
           FILE -rw-r--r--     121240  Dec  4 1991  adv551.zip

Host leif.thep.lu.se

    Location: /pub/Misc
           FILE -rw-r--r--     115713  Nov 27 1991  adv551.zip

Host rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de

    Location: /.serv3/soft/pc/games
           FILE -rw-rw-r--     121240  Dec  4 1991  adv551.zip
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