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From: play@cwi.nl (The MC Funhouse Master)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Looking for the original C adventure
Message-ID: <602@sering.cwi.nl>
Date: 19 Sep 88 07:29:23 GMT
References:  <29787@bbn.COM>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <29787@bbn.COM> cosell@BBN.COM (Bernie Cosell) writes:
 > In article  pearl@porthos.rutgers.edu (Starbuck) writes:
 > }I am looking for the original ADVENTURE, preferably written C or
 > }Pascal.  Any pointers?  Thanks!
 > 
 > "preferably" is a bit odd -- either you want the original or you
 > don't.  The original was written in Fortran; it was not-long-after
 > redone pretty extensively, again in Fortran, and it is this second
 > version that is the first that really leaked out to the world at
 > large.  I think it (the revised version) got posted to
 > comp.sources.games a while back and so can probably be found in
 > someones archives somewhere.
No, it has never been posted to the net (at least not the last 10 years
or so).  But the original program has been rewritten in C.  Once at UCLA
(this had a beautiful bug: tell lauren@ucla-security that fatal bug 25
happened), but this was never distributed in source.  Another rewrite was
done at rand (jim@rand-unix).  It might also be that the first was based
on the second.  The sources for the second are in all BSD distributions
(and as it does not contain AT&T code it might be publicly available,
though I am not sure).  On the other hand the source is not much to
look at, containing all kinds of labels like L00080 etc.
-- 
Game Keeper
Mail: play@cwi.nl