[SPG_Active_Members] Original FORTRAN source of ColossalCave Adventure found

[Bernard L. Peuto]

Bob

Great so what about a small write up capturing what you know.

Bernard 

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> [mailto:scc_active-bounces at computerhistory.org] On Behalf Of 
> Bob Fraley
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:37 AM
> To: Randall Neff; SCC_active at computerhistory.org
> Subject: Re: [SPG_Active_Members] Original FORTRAN source of 
> ColossalCave Adventure found
> 
> 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_th
> read/threa
> >d/607acaf1a279d4dd/bd53b672a185d177#bd53b672a185d177
> >
> >Full Article with photos from real Colossal Cave:
> >http://brain.lis.uiuc.edu:2323/opencms/export/sites/default/d
> hq/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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