Remembering the ol' days was Re: [Novalug] DC ACM Lecture Monday December 10th, "Game Development" with Lord British

Dan Arico dan_arico at aricosystems.com
Tue Nov 20 12:08:38 EST 2007


On Tuesday 20 November 2007 10:00, Beartooth wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Ed T. Toton III wrote:
> > Colossal Cave, aka Adventure:
> >
> > 	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave
> >
> > The original Crowther version from 1976 didn't have the Dragon,
> > I don't think... I belive the Woods variant added that.
>
>  	That's it. My son and I used to play it while visiting an
> inlaw; the son is coming here to visit next month, and it'd be a
> hoot to have it installed on the loaner laptop in the guest room
> for him to discover -- but I don't see any links to downloads,
> much less specs such as whether it'll run under F8 ...

You can find it buried inside emacs. If you do a full install with all the 
options, there's a "games" entry in one of the drop down menus.

Dan Arico

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