{"id":7536,"date":"2017-05-14T18:53:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T22:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7536"},"modified":"2017-05-22T09:37:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T13:37:11","slug":"the-advent-of-advent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7536","title":{"rendered":"The advent of ADVENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A marvellous thing has just occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Colossal Cave Adventure, the original progenitor of the D&#038;D-like dungeon-crawling game genre from 1977 and fondly remembered as ADVENT by those of us who played it on PDP-10s, is one of the major artifacts of hacker history. <\/p>\n<p>The earliest version by Crowther and Woods (sometimes known as 350-point Adenture) was ported to C by Jim Gillogly in &#8217;77 just after it first shipped.  That has been part of the bsd-games collection forever.<\/p>\n<p>What I have have just received Crowther &#038; Wood&#8217;s encouragement to polish up and ship under a modern open-source license is not the Gillogly port; it&#8217;s Crowther &#038; Woods&#8217;s <em>last<\/em> version from 1995. It has 18 years of work in it that the Gillogly version doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I feel rather as though I&#8217;d been given a priceless Old Master painting to restore and display. Behooves me to be careful stripping off the oxidized varnish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A marvellous thing has just occurred. Colossal Cave Adventure, the original progenitor of the D&#038;D-like dungeon-crawling game genre from 1977 and fondly remembered as ADVENT by those of us who played it on PDP-10s, is one of the major artifacts of hacker history. The earliest version by Crowther and Woods (sometimes known as 350-point Adenture)&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=7536\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The advent of ADVENT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacker-culture","category-software","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7537,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7536\/revisions\/7537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}