Cartman
08-15-2007, 08:05 AM
Recently it was announced that Will Crowther's original source code for Colossal Cave Adventure has been found. The FORTRAN source code can be found here (http://jerz.setonhill.edu/if/crowther/). For those too young to realize the significance of this, it's like finding the holy grail of adventure game programming.
You can see the posting here (http://brain.lis.uiuc.edu:2323/opencms/export/sites/default/dhq/vol/001/2/000009.html). It includes pictures of the real caves used for inspiration in the game and an explanation of the code.
You can see the posting here (http://brain.lis.uiuc.edu:2323/opencms/export/sites/default/dhq/vol/001/2/000009.html). It includes pictures of the real caves used for inspiration in the game and an explanation of the code.