HPR2334: Our Adventure Begins!

In this HPR episode, I discuss the open-sourcing of Colossal Cave Adventure (a text adventure computer game), my childhood exposure to text adventure games, and passing along the text adventure torch to my middle son thanks to the "bsdgames" package.

Opening sound clip taken from "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey." Closing song is "The Free Software Song" performed by Mark Forry, Yvette Osborne, Ron Fox, Steve Finney, Bill Cope, Kip McAtee, Ernie Provencher, Dan Auvil (https://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.en.html).

E-mail: claudio@linuxbasement.com
IRC: ClaudioM on irc.freenode.net, #oggcastplanet

Links

• Wikipedia: Colossal Cave Adventure
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure

• The Advent of ADVENT
  https://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7536

• The Adventure Begins Again
  https://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7540

• Github: Open Adventure
  https://gitlab.com/esr/open-adventure

• ClaudioM's Blog: The Adventure Begins Again, and it Begins for Us!
  https://claudiomiranda.wordpress.com/2017/05/30/the-adventure-begins-again-and-it-begins-for-us/

• LinuxQuestions Wiki: BSD Games
  https://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/BSD_games

• Youtube: "Aventure 2: Pirate Cove" for the Commodore VIC-20 / Commodore VC-20
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04ghPx8WjLM

• Wikipedia: Infocom
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infocom

• Wikipedia: Mattel Aquarius
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattel_Aquarius

• Wikipedia: Zork
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork

• Wikipedia: Hunt the Wumpus
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_the_Wumpus

• SourceForge: Frotz, A Portable Z-Machine Interpreter
  https://frotz.sourceforge.net/

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