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Re: Running ADV (advent.tap) on T10

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On 1/22/26 12:38 PM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> David Todd writes:
>> And I'm not sure.  The program starts with Crowther's name, and it
>> seems to be the one I ran in '78 or so on a KA-10.  But it's possible
>> that the code was modified or rewritten and used Crowther's .DAT file,
>> which is where Crother's name comes up in the intro ("(ERRORS,
>> SUGGESTIONS, COMPLAINTS TO CROWTHER) ".  I did see an acknowledgement
>> somewhere (not in the code) of Woods working with Crowther to extend
>> it.  No authorship cited in the source code (other than IFILE.FOR).
> 
> Among a few versions I have, the original Crowther code is just one
> source file and has the phrase you mention, and nothing about Woods.
> The newer versions say "This program was originally developed by Willie
> Crowther.  Most of the features of the current program were added by Don
> Woods."

Thanks, Lars.

Yes, I think the version that Jayjwa pointed to in the first note about 
this is actually Crowther's original version.  One long source file, 
adv.f4, and a smaller file, iofil.for.  I think adv.f4 is Crowther's 
original code, which ran on a KA-10 DEC-10; iofil.for was written to 
adapt it to the DEC-20's OPEN statement.  The coding style in ADV.F4 is 
pretty crude -- the sort of thing you might put together quickly for 
your two daughters. ;-)

The FUN:ADVENT.EXE file *seems* to be the Woods version.  It starts by 
saying "This is "Version II" of Adventure.".  I've seen the source code 
somewhere (not on Panda), and it had a much more professional coding 
style.

The FUN:CAVE.EXE file is a multi-player version on DEC20 Panda. The 
MACRO code for it is in <utilities>, CAVE.MAC; written by David I Bell. 
Looks like a very nice piece of DEC20 MACRO code.

I think the Crowther code is historically significant and worth 
preserving somewhere.  It formed the basis for much of later computer 
gaming, conceptually if not in actual coding.

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