5 advent - Colossal Cave Adventure
8 *advent* [-l logfile] [-o]
11 The original Colossal Cave Adventure from 1976-77 was the origin of all
12 later text adventures, dungeon-crawl (computer) games, and computer-hosted
15 This is the last version released by Crowther & Woods, its original
16 authors, in 1995. It has been known as "adventure 2.5" and "430-point
17 adventure". To learn more about the changes since the 350-point
18 original, type 'news' at the command prompt.
20 There is an 'adventure' in the BSD games package that is a C port by
21 Jim Gillogly of the 1976 ancestor of this game. To avoid a name
22 collision, this game builds as 'advent', reflecting the fact that the
23 PDP-10 on which it originally ran limited filenames to 6 characters.
25 This version is released as open source with the permission and
26 encouragement of the original authors.
30 -l:: Log commands to specified file.
32 -o:: Old-style. Restores original interface, no prompt.
36 The binary save file format is fragile and unlikely to survive
37 through version bumps.
40 Report bugs to Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>. The project page is
41 at http://catb.org/~esr/open-adventure
44 wumpus(6), adventure(6), zork(6), rogue(6), nethack(6).