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A chance remark in another newsgroup stimulated my interest in the game
Adventure.
Very long ago, when I was a student, the local mainframe had a copy of
the original 350-point Adventure - apparently in a PL/I port - and I
played it a little, but I had no opportunity to play it much.
Later, I had the chance to play it on my own microcomputer, thanks to a
commercial version available for the Commodore 64, and somewhat later, I
encountered the 550-point version, included with a version of Unix.
In any event, I was able to locate not just the downloads at
http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/e_downloads.html
but also those at
http://ifarchive.plover.net/indexes/if-archiveXgamesXsource.html
and I also read the history of Adventure at the Rick Adams site.
I knew the original Adventure referred to it being designed by Will
Crowther, with "most of the features of this version added by Don
Woods", but I hadn't realized that the first Adventure had circulated,
and was then seen by Don Woods, who had not been directly acquainted
with Will Crowther prior to that time, or that it was borne of a
personal tragedy.
From doing a search of Google Groups, I see that Don Woods did not
retain his copy of the *original* original Adventure, and neither did
Will Crowther.
However, we do know some facts about it:
it had *five treasures*;
it was closely based on the actual Bedquilt region of the Mammoth Cave
system.
It might well be able to guess which parts of Adventure were added by
Don Woods, based on this. It would seem to me that the bird chamber and
the Hall of the Mountain King, for example, are very definitely part of
the original game by Will Crowther, but less cave-like areas, such as
the Giant Room or Witt's End, are likely additions by Don Woods.
Thus, even if the original original Adventure hasn't survived, it might
be possible to reconstruct it, creating a *reconstructed* Adventure 1.
Also, I'm surprised that there are several ports of the 550-point
adventure that didn't fix spelling errors - the sword should sing "Dies
Irae", for example.
On that topic, a Google search enabled me to find not merely that the
Khumbu Ice-Fall is a very dangerous initial part of the most common
approach to Mount Everest, but that the song mentioned was from the
album "Tibetan Bells" by Henry Wolff and Nancy Hennings.
John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html
A chance remark in another newsgroup stimulated my interest in the game
Adventure.
Very long ago, when I was a student, the local mainframe had a copy of
the original 350-point Adventure - apparently in a PL/I port - and I
played it a little, but I had no opportunity to play it much.
Later, I had the chance to play it on my own microcomputer, thanks to a
commercial version available for the Commodore 64, and somewhat later, I
encountered the 550-point version, included with a version of Unix.
In any event, I was able to locate not just the downloads at
http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/e_downloads.html
but also those at
http://ifarchive.plover.net/indexes/if-archiveXgamesXsource.html
and I also read the history of Adventure at the Rick Adams site.
I knew the original Adventure referred to it being designed by Will
Crowther, with "most of the features of this version added by Don
Woods", but I hadn't realized that the first Adventure had circulated,
and was then seen by Don Woods, who had not been directly acquainted
with Will Crowther prior to that time, or that it was borne of a
personal tragedy.
From doing a search of Google Groups, I see that Don Woods did not
retain his copy of the *original* original Adventure, and neither did
Will Crowther.
However, we do know some facts about it:
it had *five treasures*;
it was closely based on the actual Bedquilt region of the Mammoth Cave
system.
It might well be able to guess which parts of Adventure were added by
Don Woods, based on this. It would seem to me that the bird chamber and
the Hall of the Mountain King, for example, are very definitely part of
the original game by Will Crowther, but less cave-like areas, such as
the Giant Room or Witt's End, are likely additions by Don Woods.
Thus, even if the original original Adventure hasn't survived, it might
be possible to reconstruct it, creating a *reconstructed* Adventure 1.
Also, I'm surprised that there are several ports of the 550-point
adventure that didn't fix spelling errors - the sword should sing "Dies
Irae", for example.
On that topic, a Google search enabled me to find not merely that the
Khumbu Ice-Fall is a very dangerous initial part of the most common
approach to Mount Everest, but that the song mentioned was from the
album "Tibetan Bells" by Henry Wolff and Nancy Hennings.
John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html
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