[Simh] PDP-11 Dungeon

Rich Alderson simh at alderson.users.panix.com
Tue Oct 6 13:41:57 EDT 2009


> Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:31:38 +0200
> From: "dott.Piergiorgio" <dott.piergiorgio at fastwebnet.it>

> Being a denizen of rec.arts.int-fiction (the NG for text adventure 
> development) I can humbly point that was found the original Crowther 
> wersion, that is, the codebase from wchich Woods writes Colossal Cave, 
> later known, well, as Dungeon ?

Dottore,

The Will Crowther cave exploration on which Don Woods worked his magic is
called Adventure.  Dungeon is Bob Supnik's implementation of Zork, which was
originally written as an attempt to see if a better game could be written in
(a form of) Lisp than in Fortran.

                                                                Rich Alderson



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