Adventure - Variants at the Interactive Fiction Archive

Compiled by David Kinder

The 350 Point Original

• The original PDP-10 Fortran source code. Every other version can be tracked down to this one. Not to be recommended for actual porting to modern machines though, as it has many dependencies on the nature of the PDP-10 (5 characters-per-word packing and the like).

Ports of the 350 Point Adventure

• Kenneth Plotkin's version, available as a DOS executable, MS Fortran source code and the PDP-11 Fortran source code from which the former was derived.
• Don Ekman's version, available as a DOS executable and MS Fortran source code, derived from Fortran source for the PDP-11/70. There is also an Amiga executable, compiled from the MS Fortran source.
• Bob Supnik's DECUS version, release 4, available as Fortran source code.
• Kevin Black's DOS version of the DECUS code, available as a DOS executable.
• Jim Gillogy's C version, now part of the BSD Unix distribution. Available as C source code and an Amiga executable.
• Jay R. Jaegar converted the original Adventure to BDS C, and added separate values for treasures, survival and score. Available is Bob Wither's DOS version, as a DOS executable and MS C source code. The BDS code was converted to Unix by Jerry D. Pohl. This latter version is available as Unix source code, OS/2 source code, a DOS executable and an OS/2 executable.

Recent Implementations of the 350 Point Adventure

• Colossal Cave Revisited, a TADS implementation by Dave Bagget, based on Don Ekman's DOS version. A TADS interpreter is required is play this version.
• Advent, an Inform version by Graham Nelson, based on the above TADS code. An Infocom interpreter is required to play this version.
• Colossal Hugo, a Hugo version by Kent Tessman, based on the above Inform code. A Hugo interpreter is required.

370 Point Adventure

A 370 point version by Paul Munoz-Colman, converted from Honeywell Fortran 77 and dated March 1993. It is available as DOS PDS Fortran source code and a DOS executable.

Adventure 2.5

This is a 430 point version, extended by Don Woods and dated 1995. It is available as generic C source code, a DOS executable and an Amiga executable.

Adventure 3

This version (often referred to as Adventure 550, from the maximum score of 550 points), was originally written in Fortran by David Platt in 1979. A DOS executable compiled from the Fortran source is available. More widely ported is Ken C. Wellsch's rewritten C version, dated August 1985. It is available as C source code, a combined DOS/Windows executable, an Amiga executable and a Mac executable.

Adventure 4

Written by Mike Arnautov, this version combines Adventure 2 (by Peter Luckett and Jack Pike) with Adventure 3, using David Platt's Adventure scripting language, into a 660 point version of the game. The latest available version is 10.06, dated July 1995. It is available as generic C source code, a DOS executable and an Amiga executable.

Adventure 5

Adventure was extended from the 350 point original by David Long at the University of Chicago, around 1978, into this 501 point version. Adventure 5.2/2 is only available as Fortran IV source code, which will not compile under f77 or f2c. If anyone out there understands Fortran IV...

Adventure 6

This is based on Adventure 5, with additions by David Long, plus other additions performed by an anonymous coder around 1984. It has a maximum score of 551 points. Doug McDonald took the Fortran source and changed it so that it will compile with f77 or f2c, and released version 6.6 on Usenet in August 1990. It is available as Fortran source code, a DOS executable and an Amiga executable.

Adventure in Humongous Cave

A 1000 point extension of Adventure 3, written by David Malmberg using the Master's Edition of the AGT authoring system. It is available as a DOS executable, which can also be played on other systems using Robert Masenten's AGiliTy interpreter, and as AGT source code.