No, I meant 1970. It was one of the first games that ran on the computer centers TSO system. (It
seems like it had another name before it was called TSO but I don't remember it.) Startrek and
Football were the others. They all appeared about 1969. I don't remember which was first. Adventure
was written in PL/I and Startrek was in Fortran. Football was in another language. (Cobol? or Basic?
maybe) I wrote the OU version of adventure in my spare time while working on the help desk. The
university version wasn't that much different it just had the names changed and a few new passages
added. "You are in an administration building filled with twisty little passages all alike." I left
the help desk in 1973 to work for DHS as a programmer.
Adam Thornton wrote:
On Jun 3, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Stephen Frazier wrote:
I have a copy of the source code for an early version of Adventure. I
do not seem to have the University of Oklahoma mods that I wrote
around 1970 anymore.
That seems unlikely; pretty much all the sources agree that Adventure
itself was written about 1975, and the Woods collaboration that really
enabled its breakout success was 1976.
So I think you probably meant 1980.
Adam
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