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@ -23,9 +23,11 @@ in the 1995 release of Adventure 2.5, also known as 430-point Adventure
The earliest port to C was by Jim Gillogly under an early Unix running
at the Rand Corporation in 1977; this version was later, and still is,
included in the BSD Games collection. It was blessed by Crowther and
Woods and briefly marketed in 1981 under the name "The Original
Adventure".
included in the BSD Games collection. I have it from Don Woods directly
that "[Jim Gillogly] was one of the first to request and receive a copy
of the source" but that Woods did not actually know of the BSD port
until I brefed him on it in 2017. (This contradicts some implications
in third-party histories.)
Many other people ported and extended the game in various directions.
A notable version was the first game shipped for the IBM Personal