X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=history.adoc;h=ff887af6dc1e121c3bf7849e80e0e6d02e9424e5;hb=0f126b0cb5f8539f456f2d7f2c06d8f32c2491c2;hp=f64fef91296d467dd492802b24c8890cdda99d15;hpb=681ecd9a4fa939a2e57c14bb263d8f288e3b14c9;p=open-adventure.git diff --git a/history.adoc b/history.adoc index f64fef9..ff887af 100644 --- a/history.adoc +++ b/history.adoc @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ The very first version was released by Crowther in 1976, in FORTRAN on the PDP-10 at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman. (Crowther was at the time writing what we could now call firmware for the earliest ARPANET routers.) It was a maze game based on the Colossal Cave complex in -Kentucky, lacking most of the D&D-like elements now associated with +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 @@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ he replied on 15 May giving both permission and encouragement. Here is what Don said about differences between the original Adventure and 2.5: +............................................................................ > The bulk of the points come from five new 16-point treasures. (I say "bulk" > because I think at least one of the scores included some padding and I may > have tweaked those.) Each of the new treasures requires solving a puzzle @@ -105,6 +106,7 @@ and 2.5: > succumb even given access to the game source. You really need to fit > together not only the goals and the map and use of inventory space, but > also details like just what _can_ you do in the dark...? +............................................................................ == Nomenclature == @@ -115,7 +117,7 @@ versions 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and for all I know higher than that. It seems best just to start a new numbering series while acknowledging the links back. -I have reverted to "Advent" for the binary to avoid a name collision +We have reverted to "Advent" for the binary to avoid a name collision with the BSD Games version. == Functional changes in Open Adventure == @@ -145,6 +147,6 @@ which is then linked to the advent binary. - [[[IFA]]] http://rickadams.org/adventure/ -- [[[[DA]]] http://www.filfre.net/sitemap/ +- [[[DA]]] http://www.filfre.net/sitemap/ - [[[SN]]] http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/1/2/000009/000009.html