Re: How to get Colossal Cave installed
The original Adventure game was a FORTRAN program which you could compile and run. Unfortunately it was dependent on the word-length of the machine for strings. Many derivative copies were made fixing this problem for various word-lengths. The original source is kicking around the net somewhere.
After its amazing success Bill Crowther made a more extensive version which he sold to try to make some money off of it.
An excellent program.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
