In this HPR episode, I discuss the open-sourcing of Colossal Cave Adventure (a text adventure computer game), my childhood exposure to text adventure games, and passing along the text adventure torch to my middle son thanks to the "bsdgames" package.

Opening sound clip taken from "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey." Closing song is "The Free Software Song" performed by Mark Forry, Yvette Osborne, Ron Fox, Steve Finney, Bill Cope, Kip McAtee, Ernie Provencher, Dan Auvil (http://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.en.html).

E-mail: [email protected]

IRC: ClaudioM on irc.freenode.net, #oggcastplanet

Links

Wikipedia: Colossal Cave Adventure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure

The Advent of ADVENT

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7536

The Adventure Begins Again

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7540

Github: Open Adventure

https://gitlab.com/esr/open-adventure

ClaudioM's Blog: The Adventure Begins Again, and it Begins for Us!

https://claudiomiranda.wordpress.com/2017/05/30/the-adventure-begins-again-and-it-begins-for-us/

LinuxQuestions Wiki: BSD Games

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/BSD_games

Youtube: "Aventure 2: Pirate Cove" for the Commodore VIC-20 / Commodore VC-20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04ghPx8WjLM

Wikipedia: Infocom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infocom

Wikipedia: Mattel Aquarius

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattel_Aquarius

Wikipedia: Zork

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork

Wikipedia: Hunt the Wumpus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_the_Wumpus

SourceForge: Frotz, A Portable Z-Machine Interpreter

http://frotz.sourceforge.net/