Subj : Re: Colossal Cave Adventu
To   : JEFF THIELE
From : Mike Powell
Date : Tue Mar 01 2022 04:18 pm

>  MP> > Same here. The Mammoth Cave system was the inspiration for "Colossal 
Ca
>  MP> > Adventure," the first interactive fiction computer game (1976). 
Develop
>  MP> > a PDP-10, the author used maps and recollections of his own Mammoth 
Cav
>  MP> > explorations to populate it, and the original version had no sorcery 
or
>  MP> > dragons or the like. It was an attempt to let people experience 
Mammoth
>  MP> > without having to actually go into it.

> It was indeed text-based. I'm not sure what would need to be done to make it
> a door game, but the original was in FORTRAN and can be found on GitHub:
> https://github.com/Neko250/adventure

Too bad it is not COBOL or I might understand what it was doing.  :)

Did they have COBOL for the PDP machines?

Going to move this to Classic Computers before we start something here we
don't intend to!  :D

Mike


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