Adventure is often considered to be the very first text adventure. It was written in 1975-76 by Will Crowther. Don Woods found it at his university, asked Will Crowter for the source code, expanded it greatly, and released his own version, which we now know as 350p Adventure. Adventure was sometimes called Colossal Cave Adventure. Sometimes it was just called Advent, simply because that was the filename of the original game (the file system used by Crowther didn’t allow longer filenames).
This is a new port of the game. It uses the PunyInform library. Gameplaywise, it should be very close to the original game. The source code is also available, for anyone wanting to know how things work behind the scenes – it’s all at the site: https://microheaven.com/advent/
PunyInform lets authors write games that run at a decent speed on old 8-bit platforms, and this is one of those games. The game is compiled to Z-code, and ready-to-play disk images are available for the following platforms:
- Commodore PET, VIC-20, C64, C128, Plus/4, Amiga
- MEGA65
- Commander X16
- Spectrum +3, Next
- Atari 8-bit, ST
- BBC Micro, Acorn Electron
- Dragon 64
- Amstrad CPC, PCW
- MS-DOS
- MSX 1/2
- Classic Macintosh
- Sam Coupé
- Apple II
- Oric Atmos, Telestrat
- TI99/4a
- TRS Coco
- TRS-80 Model 3, Model 4
- DEC Rainbow
- Osborne 1
- Kaypro
- Any modern computer
- Play in web browser
Head on over to https://microheaven.com/advent/ to get your copy, or play the game in your browser!
