[SPG_Active_Members] Original FORTRAN source of Colossal Cave Adventure found

[Bob Fraley]

That's great.  I've done some work in the past with the extended 
version from 1977, and have notes on much of the operation of the 
source code.

Bob


At 08:40 AM 8/15/2007, Randall Neff wrote:
>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.
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