{"id":356,"date":"2007-08-16T13:42:09","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T12:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=356"},"modified":"2011-03-31T12:31:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T10:31:25","slug":"adventure-the-cave-and-the-source-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/08\/16\/adventure-the-cave-and-the-source-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventure: The Cave and the Source Code"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exciting news for video game history buffs: Not only has the original Fortran source code for the original Colossal Cave Adventure game been found (here<\/a>) … Dennis G. Jerz has gone all the way and traveled to the original cave, and<\/em> analyzed the program. It’s in this paper: Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther’s Original “Adventure” in Code and in Kentucky<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So here we are, the cave:<\/p>\n

\"East-west\"
\nYOU ARE IN AN AWKWARD SLOPING EAST\/WEST CANYON<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

And the source code:<\/p>\n

C ADVENTURES
\nIMPLICIT INTEGER(A-Z)
\nREAL RAN
\nCOMMON RTEXT,LLINE
\nDIMENSION IOBJ(300),ICHAIN(100),IPLACE(100)
\n1 ,IFIXED(100),COND(300),PROP(100),ABB(300),LLINE(1000,22)
\n2 ,LTEXT(300),STEXT(300),KEY(300),DEFAULT(300),TRAVEL(1000)
\n3 ,TK(25),KTAB(1000),ATAB(1000),BTEXT(200),DSEEN(10)
\n4 ,DLOC(10),ODLOC(10),DTRAV(20),RTEXT(100),JSPKT(100)
\n5 ,IPLT(100),IFIXT(100)<\/p>\n

C READ THE PARAMETERS<\/p>\n

IF(SETUP.NE.0) GOTO 1
\nSETUP=1
\nKEYS=1
\nLAMP=2
\nGRATE=3
\nROD=5
\nBIRD=7
\nNUGGET=10
\nSNAKE=11
\nFOOD=19
\nWATER=20
\nAXE=21
\nDATA(JSPKT(I),I=1,16)\/24,29,0,31,0,31,38,38,42,42,43,46,77,71
\n1 ,73,75\/
\nDATA(IPLT(I),I=1,20)\/3,3,8,10,11,14,13,9,15,18,19,17,27,28,29
\n1 ,30,0,0,3,3\/
\nDATA(IFIXT(I),I=1,20)\/0,0,1,0,0,1,0,1,1,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0\/
\nDATA(DTRAV(I),I=1,15)\/36,28,19,30,62,60,41,27,17,15,19,28,36
\n1 ,300,300\/
\nDO 1001 I=1,300
\nSTEXT(I)=0
\nIF(I.LE.200) BTEXT(I)=0
\nIF(I.LE.100)RTEXT(I)=0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exciting news for video game history buffs: Not only has the original Fortran source code for the original Colossal Cave Adventure game been found (here) … Dennis G. Jerz has gone all the way and traveled to the original cave, and analyzed the program. It’s in this paper: Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will … Continue reading “Adventure: The Cave and the Source Code”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}