Colossal Cave Adventure (1976)

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wduquette ◴[26 Apr 25 12:30 UTC] No.43803019[source]▶

I had a copy of the Fortran IV source for the PDP-11 back in the late 70’s. My friend and I tried to extend the game a bit, but soon ran into trouble. Dunno whether this is the same code or not.

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HocusLocus ◴[27 Apr 25 00:37 UTC] No.43808478[source]▶

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If you ever encountered a Fortan-77 port where the room that had 'frozen rivers of orange stone' also had another bit in the description: "A recently carved message on the wall reads, 'Artoo Detoo was here!'.

That was me. On the engineering filesystem of GEISCO (General Electric Information Services Co Mark III foreground, the thing using Honeywell equipment that later became GEnie) ... still a kid I leveraged the debugger to root-like access for a time and it was fun. I did a global search for Adventure and found it in 4 separate 'private' employee-user places, and patched them all. ~1981.

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1. wduquette ◴[27 Apr 25 14:59 UTC] No.43812396[source]▶

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My buddy and I added a room to the entrance of the Little Twisty Maze of Passages All The Same. If you said “out” having just entered the maze, you went to a room that said, “You are out. There is nothing in all directions.” “In” would return you to the maze.

Our plan was to let you say, “get nothing”, and then carry “nothing” to the Majestic View and drop it on the lava flow so that you could cross to a new area; but we only had 28k of memory and and had to abandon the idea,

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