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 games, and computer-hosted roleplaying
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 This game is released as open source with the permission and encouragement of
22 There is an 'adventure' in the BSD games package that is a C
23 port of the 1976 ancestor of this game. To avoid a name collision,
24 this game builds as 'advent', reflecting the fact that the PDP-10
25 on which it originally ran limited filenames to 6 characters.
29 -l:: Log commands to specified file.
31 -o:: Old-style. Restores original interface, no prompt.
33 == ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES ==
35 Path to the text database file describing Colossal Cave.
38 Report bugs to Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>. The project page is
39 at http://catb.org/~esr/advent
42 wumpus(6), adventure(6), zork(6), rogue(6), nethack(6).