From hall@crash.cts.com Sat May  7 10:13:36 1994
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From: hall@crash.cts.com (Robert R. Hall)
Subject: Enhanced Adventure part 0 of 6
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Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 03:44:35 GMT
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`Generic Adventure 551' is a cleaned up and enhanced version of the 
old classic text game `Adventure'. This is a fortran to "C" translation
Doug McDonald (mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu) version posted to alt.sources
in 1990.  Where the Minix version 1.6.25 advent only has 15 treasures
this one has 30.  The Minix advent has 140 room to explorer this one
has 248, but the big improvement is with the parser.  It now can handle
commands like:
    put gold, coins and diamonds in the sack
    take all

This version compiles using the ACK ansi compiler (someone else can
test it with the K&R one) and runs under Minix on a IBM PC.
I have also test it under MS-DOS compiles with Turbo C and Microsoft C
and I know of no reason why it shouldn't run under any system that has
a "C" compiler.

For those that have not experienced this, the very first text adventure game,
it is a romp through the darkest reaches of Colossal Cave in search of
riches. You will find evocative descriptions of the darker, more mysterious
places of the earth, and severely test your abilities to map the contortions of the cave. You will find some hard - and some
deceptively easy - puzzles to solve.
Doug McDonald (mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu)

Adventurer Grandmaster!!!
(its not easy, even if you do read the source code) and it is intended
that you do.

Robert R. Hall
hall@crash.cts.com

