5 advent - Colossal Cave Adventure
8 *advent* [-l logfile] [-o]
11 The original Colossal Cave Adventure from 1976 was the origin of all
12 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
19 There is an 'adventure' in the BSD games package that is a C port by
20 Jim Gillogly of the 1976 ancestor of this game. To avoid a name
21 collision, this game builds as 'advent', reflecting the fact that the
22 PDP-10 on which it originally ran limited filenames to 6 characters.
24 This version is released as open source with the permission and
25 encouragement of the original authors.
29 -l:: Log commands to specified file.
31 -o:: Old-style. Restores original interface, no prompt.
34 Report bugs to Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>. The project page is
35 at http://catb.org/~esr/advent
38 wumpus(6), adventure(6), zork(6), rogue(6), nethack(6).