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 = A brief history of Colossal Cave Adventure =
 by Eric S. Raymond
 
 = A brief history of Colossal Cave Adventure =
 by Eric S. Raymond
 

-Adventure is the fons et origo of all later dungeon-crawling games,
-the grandaddy of interactive fiction, and one of the hallowed artifacts
-of hacker folklore.
+Adventure is the fons et origo of all later dungeon-crawling computer
+games, the grandaddy of interactive fiction, and one of the hallowed
+artifacts of hacker folklore.

 
 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
 
 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


@@ -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.
 


@@ -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:
 
 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
 > 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


@@ -105,39 +106,34 @@ 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...?
 > 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 ==
-
-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 ==
-
-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.
+............................................................................
+
+== Earlier non-influences ==
+
+There is record of one earlier dungeon-crawling game called "dnd",
+written in 1974-75 on the PLATO system at University of Illinois
+<<DND>>.  This was in some ways similar to later roguelike games but
+not to Adventure.  The designers of later roguelikes frequently site
+Adventure as an influence, but not dnd; like PLATO itself, dnd seems
+not to have become known outside of its own user community until
+rediscovered by computer historians many years after Adventure
+shipped.
+
+There was also Hunt The Wumpus <<WUMPUS>>, written by Gregory Yob in
+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.

 
 == Sources ==
 
 
 == Sources ==
 


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 - [[[IFA]]] http://rickadams.org/adventure/
 
 
 - [[[IFA]]] http://rickadams.org/adventure/
 

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+
+- [[[DND]]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnd_(video_game)
+
+- [[[WUMPUS]]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_the_Wumpus