From: Eric S. Raymond Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2023 13:01:51 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Add historical note. X-Git-Tag: 1.10~8 X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=06a276a366d08cb25c8eee2c3460b1d0a3db40db;p=wumpus.git Add historical note. --- diff --git a/README b/README index f7c2527..4ac5d23 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -4,8 +4,18 @@ WUMPUS is a bit of retrocomputing nostalgia. It is an *exact* clone, even down to the godawful user interface, of an ancient classic game. This version fixes two minor bugs in my original USENET posting of the source. +The original "Hunt the Wumpus" game was written by Gregory Yob in +1973. It was the first exploration game to use a non-grid worldmap, +distinguishing it from earlier grid-oriented games such as Trek and +predating even 1977's Colossal Cave Adventure. + +The origin date of the BASIC source from which this game was +translated (and which is included in comments) is not known, but is +pretty certainly before 1980 and probably close to the original 1975 +publication of the source in "Creative Computing". + One historical liberty has been taken; the logo of this project is from a -latter version on the TI-99/4A with a graphical interface. +later version on the TI-99/4A with a graphical interface. SUPERHACK is a satire, structurally quite similar to WUMPUS.