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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.
 


@@ -120,54 +120,21 @@ 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.
 

-== Nomenclature ==
-
-This project is called "Open Adventure" because it's not at all clear
-to number Adventure past 2.5 without misleading or causing
-collisions. Various of the non-mainline versions have claimed to be
-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.
-
-We have reverted to "advent" for the binary to avoid a name collision
-with the BSD Games version.
-
-== Functional changes in Open Adventure ==
-
-By default, advent issues "> " as a command prompt.  This feature
-became common in many variants after the original 350-point version,
-but was never backported into Crowther & Woods's main line before now.
-The "-o" (oldstyle) version reverts the behavior.
-
-A "seed" command has been added.  This is not intended for human use
-but as a way for game logs to set the PRNG (pseudorandom-number generator) so
-that random events (dwarf & pirate appearances, the bird's magic word)
-will be reproducible.
-
-A -l command-line option has been added. When this is given (with a
-file path argument) each command entered will be logged to the
-specified file.  Additionally, a generated "seed" command will be put
-early in the file capturing the randomized start state of the PRNG
-so that replays of the log will be reproducible.
-
-Using "seed" and -l, the distribution now includes a regression-test
-suite for the game.  Any log captured with -l (and thus containing
-a "seed" command) will replay reliably, including random events.
-
-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.
-

 == Sources ==
 
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 == Sources ==
 
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