Colossal Cave Adventure Windows

This is a brief page about the original text adventure game, Adventure.

I've won the 350-point game, and thought I'd share my maps and solution.Here are my maps:

1. Outside (start) - I lost my old map of this, and didn't work hard on this one.

The original Crowther and Woods PDP-10 FORTRAN source code of the Colossal Cave Adventure (350 points). (There is another version of the original source in advent-original.tar.gz) adv350-php.zip 08-Apr-2003 IFDB entry. The original 350 points version of Colossal Cave, converted to the web scripting language PHP by Matt Cox. Colossal Cave Adventure brings to Windows the game that started it all - the game that pioneered the computer adventure game genre.

Here's myoriginal Adventure solution/walkthroughfor the original 350-point game.You only have a limited amount of time with the lamp,so any final walkthrough like this will mix up puzzle solutions.

You can download many different versions of Adventure at no charge.One nice one is Advent.z5 (12-Jun-2006),Adventure aka Colossal Cave. This is the original 350 pointsversion ported to Inform by Graham Nelson,based on Dave Baggett's TADS reconstruction 'Colossal Cave Revisited'.(This is Release 9 / Serial number 060321.)To play this, you need a Z-machine player.There are lots of Z-machine players out there,includingFrotz for Windows,Zoom for MacOS,andFrobnitz for PalmOS.

SeeRick Adams' page on Adventurefor much, much more information, as well as downloads.

If you're interested in the history of Adventure,a lot of background on the original Adventure game (and thecave it's based on) is discussed in'Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther's Original 'Adventure' in Code and in Kentucky' byDennis G. Jerz of Seton Hill University(Digital Humanities Quarterly, Summer 2007, Volume 1 Number 2)For a long time the original code had been lost, buttheoriginal Fortran source code of Adventure has been found, showing thatWill Crowther's original version was a game - Crowther's originalversion included magic words, dwarves, and so on.Almost instantlyafter the source code was available, someone ported it and got itrunning(here is theoriginal Adventure, runnable).

You can viewmy home page, my little demo puzzleAccuse, or my page onAnchorhead.

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