[Novalug] Book Released

Kevin Cole dc.loco@gmail.com
Wed May 31 10:16:03 EDT 2017


On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 7:48 AM, Rich Kulawiec via Novalug
<novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:

> Well done!  Congratulations.
>
> But is there coverage of the Zork shell? [1]

Funny you should mention that. This just in from Motherboard dot Vice dot com:

| The First Text Adventure Game Ever Is Finally Open Source
|
| JORDAN PEARSON
|
| May 29 2017, 4:00pm
|
| ‘Colossal Cave Adventure’ is due for an update.
|
| Colossal Cave Adventure was the first text-based adventure game—It
| was developed in 1976 using one of the earliest computer programming
| languages, at the same time as the earliest version of the internet itself,
| ARPANET. The game is an important part of both hacking and gaming
| history, and now, Colossal Cave Adventure's code is online and open
| source.
|
| Last week, long-time champion of open source code Eric S. Raymond
| announced that he'd uploaded the game's code to GitLab, a site for
| developers to collaborate, with the permission of the game's original
| designers. People from all over the world can now work together to
| clean up the code and improve it, bringing it up to speed with modern
| computing standards.

Read the rest of the article at:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-first-text-adventure-game-ever-is-finally-open-source




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