Adventure 2 (WOOD043B)
| Adventure 2 (WOOD043B) | |
|---|---|
| Game | |
| Published | 1978 |
| Credits | |
| Authors | William Crowther and Donald Woods |
| Gameplay | |
| Interaction style |  Parser |
| Literary genre |  Adventure |
| Location |  Underground |
| Language | English |
| Technical details | |
| Authoring system | FORTRAN |
| System | PDP-10 |
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Nathanael Culver's Adventure Family Tree states:
Aka Adventure 2.5. Wood's port of WOOD043B" to C
With this footnote:
In calling WOOD0430 a "C extension of WOOD0350[D2], Dahlenberg elides it with WOOD043B. From WOOD0430's MAIN.C: "ADVENTURE (REV 2: 20 TREASURES) / 15-TREASURE VERSION (ADVENTURE) BY DON WOODS, APRIL-JUNE 1977 / 20-TREASURE VERSION (REV 2) BY DON WOODS, AUGUST 1978". From WOOD0430's in-game NEWS command: "Version 2.5 is essentially the same as Version II; the cave and the hazards therein are unchanged, and top score is still 430 points." And from RAYM0430's MAIN.C: "it [the WOOD0430 code] is a result of running the original Fortran IV source through a home-brew Fortran-to-C converter." And from an email from Don Wood to Rod Lockwood provided by Rod: ""When I added stuff to go from 350 points to 430 points, I definitely thought of it as v2. ... The differences between v2 and v2.5 were of a different sort; indeed, I think I may have invented the name v2.5 to refer to my port from Fortran to C. (Which I did using a converter program I wrote in Mesa.) There were no new parts to the game in v2.5." (For the full text of the email, view the source of this page.) It seems pretty clear version 2 was the 1978 430-point Fortran IV code, while Adventure 2.5 (WOOD0430) is the 1995 Fortran-to-C conversion with a few addtional hints but otherwise unchanged.
Versions
Unnamed release
Date: 1978
Related games
- Adapted from Adventure (WOOD0350) (Donald Woods; c. 1977; FORTRAN; PDP-10).
- Adapted as Adventure 2.5 (WOOD0430) (William Crowther and Donald Woods; 1995; C).
Date: 1978