X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?p=open-adventure.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=history.txt;h=3a38faca089beac75d5b3bed1d6e6dd596827a02;hp=e392f528d3e7b3e65221bd83628853e698f45029;hb=8e73ebf31baca4449e0d7a6796391a2e53048362;hpb=68712ce6666516d52f2be26bd40cee0464722174 diff --git a/history.txt b/history.txt index e392f52..3a38fac 100644 --- a/history.txt +++ b/history.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ 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 writing what we could now call firmware for the earliest ARPANET -routers) It was a maze game based on the Colossal Cave complex in +routers.) It was a maze game based on the Colossal Cave complex in Kentucy, lacking the D&D-like elements now associated with the game. Adventure as we now know it, the ancestor of all later versions, was @@ -66,12 +66,13 @@ he replied on 15 May giving both permission and encouragement. == Nomenclature == -This project is called "Open Adventure" because it's not at all clear +This project is called "Open Advent" 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. +links back. I have reverted to "Advent" to avoid a name collision +with the BSD Games version. == Sources ==