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 = A brief history of Colossal Cave Adventure =
 by Eric S. Raymond
 = A brief history of Colossal Cave Adventure =
 by Eric S. Raymond

+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: (C) Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0

 
 Adventure is the fons et origo of all later dungeon-crawling computer
 games, the granddaddy of interactive fiction, and one of the hallowed
 
 Adventure is the fons et origo of all later dungeon-crawling computer
 games, the granddaddy of interactive fiction, and one of the hallowed


@@ -15,9 +17,9 @@ Kentucky, including fewer of the D&D-like elements now associated with
 the game.
 
 Adventure as we now know it, the ancestor of all later versions, was
 the game.
 
 Adventure as we now know it, the ancestor of all later versions, was

-released on a PDP-10 at the Stanford AI Lab by Don Woods in 1977
-(some sources, apparently erroneously, say 1976). That version is
-sometimes known as 350-point Adventure.
+released on a PDP-10 at the Stanford AI Lab by Don Woods on June 3rd,
+1977 (some sources erroneously say 1976). That version is sometimes
+known as 350-point Adventure.

 
 Between 1977 and 1995 Crowther and Woods themselves continued to work
 intermittently on the game. This main line of development culminated
 
 Between 1977 and 1995 Crowther and Woods themselves continued to work
 intermittently on the game. This main line of development culminated


@@ -115,12 +117,14 @@ and 2.5:
 ............................................................................
 
 Great care has been taken to preserve 2.5's exact gameplay as intended
 ............................................................................
 
 Great care has been taken to preserve 2.5's exact gameplay as intended

-by Don.  However, under the hood Open Adventure is rather different from
-2.5.  Where 2.5 was written in FORTRAN mechanically translated into extremely
-ugly C, Open Adventure has been translated into much more modern and
-idiomatic C.  The extremely cryptic and opaque format of the original
-database of rooms, objects, and strings has been moved to YAML;
-this makes the brilliant design of it much easier to comprehend.
+by Don.  We have added a "version" command.
+
+However, under the hood Open Adventure is rather different from 2.5.
+Where 2.5 was written in FORTRAN mechanically translated into
+extremely ugly C, Open Adventure has been translated into much more
+modern and idiomatic C.  The extremely cryptic and opaque format of
+the original database of rooms, objects, and strings has been moved to
+YAML; this makes the brilliant design of it much easier to comprehend.

 
 == Earlier non-influences ==
 
 
 == Earlier non-influences ==
 


@@ -152,16 +156,19 @@ even as primitive as Adventure's.
 
 == Sources ==
 
 
 == Sources ==
 

+// asciidoc and asciidoctor both foo up on bare links ending in ')'.

 [bibliography]
 
 [bibliography]
 

-- [[[IFA]]] http://rickadams.org/adventure/
+- [[[IFA]]] http://rickadams.org/adventure/[Colossal Cave Adventure Page]

 
 

-- [[[DA]]] http://www.filfre.net/sitemap/
+- [[[DA]]] http://www.filfre.net/sitemap/[The Digital Antiquarian]

 
 

-- [[[SN]]] http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/1/2/000009/000009.html
+- [[[SN]]]
+  http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/1/2/000009/000009.html[Digital
+  Humanities Quarterly]

 
 

-- [[[DND]]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnd_(video_game)
+- [[[DND]]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnd_(video_game)[dnd (video game)]

 
 

-- [[[WUMPUS]]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_the_Wumpus
+- [[[WUMPUS]]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_the_Wumpus[Hunt The Wumpus]

 
 

-- [[[QUUX]]] https://github.com/Quuxplusone/Advent
+- [[[QUUX]]] https://github.com/Quuxplusone/Advent[Quuxplusone/Advent]