Mastodawn

The Wander System is a fantastic bit of #Unix #InteractiveFiction history, as well as originating in Washington State (where I grew up). I had no idea until listening to this episode that it pre-dated #ColossalCave by a couple years, because the version we all tried to play and gave up on early came from 1978.

Also it was easy enough to just read the game files for hints, as they were all in plain ASCII. I found from reading the sources that Tim Gilberts tried to build that it was installed to obscure these files via the setuid bit, which was a feature of even the original First Edition Unix on the PDP-7!

I wonder if anyone has any source backups of a pre-78 version, and how it might have looked before the boom in text adventures.

Dwight Walker Dec 21

worked out how to compile C version of Adventure or Colossal Cave text based game on WSL on Windows 11 (#linux) as in Windows DOS exe would not run because it was 32 bit and Windows 11 is 64 bit http://www.catb.org/~esr/open-adventure/ #games #adventure #colossalcave #textbased #c #wsl #compile #linux #windows11

Resource page for open-adventure 1.20

Resource page for open-adventure

Vintage Fantasy Art - NOAI Nov 18

« A huge green fierce snake bars the way ! », 1985

(uncredited artist)
Game box illustration for "Colossal Cave Adventure", by Peter Gerrard on Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64, Duckworth, 1985

#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #Adventure #ColossalCave #AmstradCPC #C64 #interactiveFiction #textAdventure #adventureGame

Vintage Fantasy Art - NOAI Nov 18

« Welcome to Adventure ! », 1979

by O'Neil (quite mysterious illustrator)
Game box and manual illustration for "Microsoft Adventure", BASIC port by Gordon Letwin on TRS-80, Microsoft, 1979

#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #ONeil #Adventure #ColossalCave #TRS80 #interactiveFiction #textAdventure

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kurtsh Nov 6

Do you #GenX'ers remember the text adventure "Colossal Cave" by Will Crowther, a.k.a. the original "Adventure"?

You can play that too using #Microsoft #Copilot as your text adventure parser... click below!
https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/ahQ9t9FLf6rsBHgWSEyfE

#ColossalCave #Adventure

imikotoba 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️🇯🇵Oct 20

Once upon a time I had neat handwriting, and was taking very serious notes on a text based computer game - Colossal Cave perhaps? #ColossalCave

someodd Sep 30

I ported #ColossalCave to #Gopher

Start a new session: gopher://gopher.someodd.zip:70/1/gateway/mksession/random/7/gateway/games/zcode/advent.z8/

Taffer 🇨🇦

Jul 18, 2025

I've had an idea about why I hate the chat-based interface for LLMs so much.

It's like trying to figure out how to do something in a classic text adventure, where you're not sure which words will work, and using the wrong ones will do something bad/stupid/annoying.

Of course, with those, the results were deterministic, which is strictly *better* even if you get eaten by a Grue.

#ai #llm #zork #adventure #colossalcave #infocom

Cidney Oct 21, 2024

"Historically, surrealist stop motion animation engages its audience in exploring concepts dealing with perception and reality using a bizarre, dream-like aesthetic by manipulating physical objects one frame at a time."

I worked with Amber on #ColossalCave in VR and this is... very far out of my area of expertise but very very cool. #gamedev #animation #3D

https://lief3d.dev/2024/09/10/first-post/

First Post

The purpose of this blog is to document my progress on my thesis project that I am completing for my Masters of Art & Design. It is going to be sort of a conglomeration of my notes and thoughts…

Amber Johnson - MADblog

Jukka O. Kauppinen Oct 10, 2024

Vuonna 1977 julkaistu Colossal Cave Adventure on ketterästi yksi historian tärkeimmistä peleistä. Colossal Cave on oikeastaan kaikkien seikkailupelien isä, äiti ja syntylähde. Modernimman version tekeminen muinaisesta tekstipohjaisesta seikkailusta onkin melkoinen kunnianosoitus.

@pelikopteri #pelikopteri #v2fi @V2pisteFi @v2.fi #videopelit #videogames #extralife @v2fi #ColossalCave #CygnusEntertainment #seikkailupelit

https://www.v2.fi/uutiset/pelit/38645/

Videoarvostelu: Colossal Cave on Sierra-legendojen paluu pelialalle

Sierra-peliyhtiön aikoinaan perustaneet Ken ja Roberta Williams ovat nauttineet elämästä sen jälkeen, kun Sierra ja sen jälkeläiset pistettiin lihoiksi ja pakastimeen. Mutta aivan viime vuosina heil...