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  1. advent.readme
  2. 3/18/96
  3. This is the source code for the original Crowther and Woods Colossal Cave
  4. Adventure, 350 point verion, in PDP-10 FORTRAN. There have been many ports
  5. of this, in both FORTRAN and C, but all of them can be traced back to this
  6. version.
  7. A notable feature of this version which made it into few of the ports is the
  8. concept of "cave hours". Since the PDP-10 was a timesharing system, it was
  9. often considered desirable to prevent people from playing games during
  10. business hours. The game has a "wizard mode" which allows the system
  11. administrator to set the hours and optionally allow short demo games during
  12. the off hours.
  13. There is probably no point in trying to compile this code on anything other
  14. than a PDP-10, because it depends on string packing of five characters per
  15. word of memory.
  16. For more information see "http://www.winternet.com/~radams/adventure/".
  17. Provided courtesy of Alan H. Martin <AMartin@TLE.ENet.DEC.Com>, from a rescued
  18. copy of the LINK-10 regression test system.
  19. Contents of advent.tar.gz:
  20. filename length sum md5sum
  21. ---------- ------ ----- --------------------------------
  22. advent.dat 55455 29252 9f12da0c3e129b7fe5a1d91bbfebe02f
  23. advent.for 81857 50809 ce54256f8e732b4a5e570bc64dd8536f
  24. advent.mic 78 22009 01e6efc8fe0644531c908c25c0aa225e
  25. advent.readme