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  • Re: Colossal Cave for 1100

    From sboydlns@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Bill Gunshannon on Sat Dec 3 08:04:54 2022
    On Saturday, December 3, 2022 at 10:54:14 AM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
    On 12/3/22 10:41, sboy...@gmail.com wrote:
    I would imagine any of the Fortran versions floating around the
    net would compile and run today.

    On another note, I have a listing of a similar program written in
    Fortran by a Cadet Freezemeyer (spelling?) at West Point from the
    very early 80's.
    I keep meaning to type it in but it is about an inch of green bar
    and would take quite some time and work to do it. I wish I had
    kept a copy on 8 Track Tape but I doubt I did.

    Bill;

    I've got the Fortran source for the DEC version. I was just hoping that the 1100 version would be a bit less work.

    As for your other program you could always scan it, but in my experience OCR doesn't work very well on old computer listings. Especially since the "words" in a program listing don't generally match up very well with the dictionaries that most OCR
    programs use the improve their accuracy.

    Thanks

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  • From Bill Gunshannon@21:1/5 to sboy...@gmail.com on Sat Dec 3 10:54:11 2022
    On 12/3/22 10:41, sboy...@gmail.com wrote:
    Does anyone still have the source for the 1100 version of the Colossal Cave adventure game? I can remember wasting ridiculous amounts of time playing that game when I should have been working.


    I would imagine any of the Fortran versions floating around the
    net would compile and run today.

    On another note, I have a listing of a similar program written in
    Fortran by a Cadet Freezemeyer (spelling?) at West Point from the
    very early 80's.
    I keep meaning to type it in but it is about an inch of green bar
    and would take quite some time and work to do it. I wish I had
    kept a copy on 8 Track Tape but I doubt I did.

    bill

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  • From sboydlns@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 3 07:41:41 2022
    Does anyone still have the source for the 1100 version of the Colossal Cave adventure game? I can remember wasting ridiculous amounts of time playing that game when I should have been working.

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  • From sboydlns@gmail.com@21:1/5 to sboy...@gmail.com on Sun Dec 4 09:18:39 2022
    On Saturday, December 3, 2022 at 11:04:55 AM UTC-5, sboy...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Saturday, December 3, 2022 at 10:54:14 AM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
    On 12/3/22 10:41, sboy...@gmail.com wrote:
    I would imagine any of the Fortran versions floating around the
    net would compile and run today.

    On another note, I have a listing of a similar program written in
    Fortran by a Cadet Freezemeyer (spelling?) at West Point from the
    very early 80's.
    I keep meaning to type it in but it is about an inch of green bar
    and would take quite some time and work to do it. I wish I had
    kept a copy on 8 Track Tape but I doubt I did.

    If you wanted to scan that listing I would be happy to do the data entry.

    Steve

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  • From Steve J. Martin@21:1/5 to sboy...@gmail.com on Mon Dec 5 04:01:45 2022
    On Saturday, December 3, 2022 at 11:41:43 AM UTC-4, sboy...@gmail.com wrote:
    Does anyone still have the source for the 1100 version of the Colossal Cave adventure game? I can remember wasting ridiculous amounts of time playing that game when I should have been working.

    It is available at:
    http://www.superiorbeing.ca/adventure.html

    Cheers,
    Steve J. Martin

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  • From sboydlns@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Steve J. Martin on Mon Dec 5 08:52:50 2022
    On Monday, December 5, 2022 at 7:01:47 AM UTC-5, Steve J. Martin wrote:
    On Saturday, December 3, 2022 at 11:41:43 AM UTC-4, sboy...@gmail.com wrote:
    Does anyone still have the source for the 1100 version of the Colossal Cave adventure game? I can remember wasting ridiculous amounts of time playing that game when I should have been working.
    It is available at:
    http://www.superiorbeing.ca/adventure.html

    Cheers,
    Steve J. Martin

    Got it. Thank You!

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