[SPG_Active_Members] Original FORTRAN source of Colossal Cave Adventure found

[Randall Neff]

Believed lost, the orginal FORTRAN source code of Colossal Cave Adventure,
written by Will Crowthers, was recovered from a backup of
Don Woods's student account at Stanford.  This was the first interactive
text adventure. It explored the real Colossal Cave in Kentucky. It was
written during
academic year 1975-1976.   Woods expanded the
game to include invented locations in May 1977,  and this version
was widely distributed.   FORTRAN on the PDP-10, Woods was using SAIL.

Abstract:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.int-fiction/browse_thread/thread/607acaf1a279d4dd/bd53b672a185d177#bd53b672a185d177

Full Article with photos from real Colossal Cave:
http://brain.lis.uiuc.edu:2323/opencms/export/sites/default/dhq/vol/001/2/000009.html

Source Code and Data File  (several dated versions)
http://jerz.setonhill.edu/if/crowther/


More info (except dates are now known to be wrong):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_fiction

Randall.