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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Kentucky, including fewer of the D&D-like elements now associated with
 the game.
 
 Adventure as we now know it, the ancestor of all later versions, was
 the game.
 
 Adventure as we now know it, the ancestor of all later versions, was

-was released on a PDP-10 at the Stanford AI Lab by Don Woods in 1977
+released on a PDP-10 at the Stanford AI Lab by Don Woods in 1977

 (some sources, apparently erroneously, say 1976). That version is
 sometimes known as 350-point Adventure.
 
 (some sources, apparently erroneously, say 1976). That version is
 sometimes known as 350-point Adventure.
 


@@ -120,12 +120,17 @@ rediscovered by computer historians many years after Adventure
 shipped.
 
 There was also Hunt The Wumpus <<WUMPUS>>, written by Gregory Yob in
 shipped.
 
 There was also Hunt The Wumpus <<WUMPUS>>, written by Gregory Yob in

-1972. Though the wumpus was (much) later included as a monster in the
-Nethack roguelike game, this was done in a spirit of conscious
-museumization well after early roguelikes. There is no evidence that
-Yob's original (circulated in BASIC among microcomputer enthusiasts)
-was known to the ARPANET- and minicomputer-centered culture Crowther
-and Woods were part of until well after Adventure was written.
+1972. There is no evidence that Yob's original (circulated
+in BASIC among microcomputer enthusiasts) was known to the ARPANET-
+and minicomputer-centered culture Crowther and Woods were part of
+until well after Adventure was written.
+
+(I was a developer of the Nethack roguelike early in that game's
+history; we knew of Hunt The Wumpus then from its early Unix port, but
+it didn't influence us either, nor in any apparent way the designers
+of other early roguelikes. After my time the wumpus was included as a
+monster in Nethack, but this was done in a spirit of conscious
+museumization after historians rediscovered Yob's game.)

 
 Neither of these games used an attempt at a natural-language parser
 even as primitive as Adventure's.
 
 Neither of these games used an attempt at a natural-language parser
 even as primitive as Adventure's.


@@ -168,6 +173,13 @@ The adventure.text file is no longer required at runtime.  Instead, it
 is compiled at build time to a source module containing C structures,
 which is then linked to the advent binary.
 
 is compiled at build time to a source module containing C structures,
 which is then linked to the advent binary.
 

+The game-save format has changed.  This was done to simplify
+FORTRAN-derived code that formerly implemented these functions;
+without C's fread(3)/fwrite() and structs it was necessarily pretty
+ugly by modern stabdards. Encryption and checksumming have been
+discarded - it's pointless to try tamper-prooing saves when everyone
+has the source code.
+

 == Sources ==
 
 [bibliography]
 == Sources ==
 
 [bibliography]