SHshakna·Apr 26, 2025Submission
Colossal Cave Adventure (1976)
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adventure
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Colossal Cave Adventure source code ! (1976)
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2Mentions
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137GitHub stars
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Colossal Cave Adventure source code ! (1976)
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Observed mentions: 2024-09-12 19:33:34 UTC to 2025-04-26 01:52:32 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Sep 2024 | 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 2024 | 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2024 | 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2024 | 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2025 | 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2025 | 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2025 | 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesThis prompted me to do a web search and disk search.
While the original program was written in Fortran, I found "C" versions on disk.
Possible sources:
David Kinder's guide to Adventure downloads at
the Interactive Fiction Archive [0]
Index: if-archive/games/source [1]
The apparent pre-history of the game
Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther's Original “Adventure” in Code and in Kentucky [2] (a very long and detailed article)
What looks to be the original code in Fortran [3]
[0] https://rickadams.org/adventure/e_downloads.html
[1] https://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive/games/source/
[2] http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/001/2/000009/000009...
[3] https://github.com/wh0am1-dev/adventure
Quick search. Corrections welcome.
In The Crowther and Woods 'Colossal Cave Adventure' game: Here's where it all began