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= README for Open Adventure =
This code is a forward-port of the Crowther/Woods Adventure 2.5 from
1995, last version in the main line of Colossal Cave Adventure
development written by the original authors. The authors have given
permission and encouragement to this release.
The file history.txt contains a more detailed history of this game
and its ancestors.
This project is called "Open Adventure" because it's not at all clear
to number Adventure past 2.5 without misleading or causing collisions
or both. See the history file for discussion.

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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 1976
(some sources, apparentl erroneously, say 1977). That version is
(some sources, apparently erroneously, say 1977). That version is
sometimes known as 350-point Adventure.
Between 1976 and 1995 Crowther and Woods themselves continued to work
intermittently on the game. This main line of development cuminated
intermittently on the game. This main line of development culminated
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
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Many versions are collected at The Interactive Fiction Archive
<<IFA>>. Same articles at <<DA>> are a narrative of the history of the
game. There is some divergence of dates between these; I have
preferred <<IF>> because its chronology makes better internal sense.
game. There is some divergence of dates between these; pending
correction from the authors, I have preferred <<IF>> because its
chronology makes better internal sense.
Future versions of this document may attempt to untangle some of that
history. For now, it will suffice to explain the chain of provenance
that led from the original Adventure to the version distributed with
this document.
Future versions of this document may attempt to untangle some of the
non-mainline history. For now, it will suffice to explain the chain of
provenance that led from the original Adventure to the version
distributed with this document.
The original 350-point ADVENT on the PDP-10 had been one of my
formative experiences as a fledgling hacker in 1976-77. Forty years
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I wrote to Don asking permission to release 2.5 under 2-clause BSD;
he replied on 15 May giving both permission and encouragement.
== 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.
== Sources ==
[bibliography]