[Simh] Crowther's Adventure game

[Dan Gahlinger]

I have an original printout of Adventure from the mid 70's, taken from a Vax though,
It's not a version I've found on the archives, the version ID on mine is different.
I've been meaning to scan it and post it.

Ancient fortran is very hard to convert, as I found out trying to convert trek7 (https://trek7.sourceforge.net)

And I spent 38 years or so converting "the new castle" from Vax to Linux/Dos/Mac.

Dan.
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From: Simh <simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com> on behalf of Quentin North <quentin at quentin.org.uk>
Sent: February 3, 2018 12:29 PM
To: Bob Nelson
Cc: simh at trailing-edge.com
Subject: Re: [Simh] Crowther's Adventure game

A bit off topic, but if anyone has a BCPL compiler for the Dec 10 I have the source code and files to the original Essex MUD. Unfortunately I think the compiler is lost, but I live in hope.

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> On 3 Feb 2018, at 15:06, Bob Nelson <rmkrider at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There are people trying to preserve significant old computer designs and operating systems in a form most likely to survive going forward such as simh.  There are also people trying to preserve significant old programs in a form most likely to survive going forward.  Being in a simh forum it isn't surprising to find more of the first type.  There is room for everyone and it is all good.
>
>> On Feb 3, 2018, at 5:05 AM, Bob Eager <rde at tavi.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 03 Feb 2018 00:37:25 -0500
>> Phil Budne <phil at ultimate.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> Last year Eric Raymond (The Cathedral And The Bazaar guy) and a few
>>>> others took the ugly machine translated C code from the last known
>>>> Fortran version and rewrote/structured it into something that is
>>>> much more readable and maintainable.
>>>
>>> To (apparently) quote the new version(*): "Well, that was remarkably
>>> pointless."
>>>
>>> To me, a GREAT part of the magic of the original game is that it makes
>>> a silk purse using a sow's ear (and my first two paying programming
>>> jobs were using FORTRAN, and then working on a FORTRAN compiler)!
>>>
>>> I recall thinking the tables (back before we called them data
>>> structures) were a thing of beauty when I first saw them.
>>>
>>> (*) http://www.catb.org/~esr/open-adventure/notes.html
>>
>> I agree about the silk purse comment.
>>
>> I have a copy of 'ed' in FORTRAN; it was very useful sometimes.
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