![]() ![]() "I just had to see Witt’s End," she said upon returning. In the Complex Room (renamed Swiss Cheese Room in Advent) she scrambled off in a direction I had never been. Excitement! Throughout the cave, she kept up a constant narrative, based on her encyclopedic knowledge of the game. No, I said, the game is based on Bedquilt Cave and we are going there now. On a survey trip to Bedquilt, a member of my party mentioned she would one day like to go on trip to Colossal Cave, where she understood the game ADVENTURE was set. The entrance is indeed a strong steel grate at the bottom of a twenty-foot depression. Yes, there is a Hall of the Mountain King and a Two-Pit Room. Computer types who grew up exploring ADVENTURE don’t realize how accurately the game represents passages in Bedquilt Cave. The total known length of the Mammoth Cave System exceeds 350 miles and exploration is still going on.īedquilt was Willie’s favorite part of the cave system. That connection is still called the Everest of speleology. In 1972 the Flint Ridge caves were joined to Mammoth Cave, over on the next ridge, in a series of difficult trips in low, half-water-filled passages under Houchin’s Valley. In our small circle, Willie Crowther is a famous, as was his wife then, cave explorer of the 60’s and 70’s when Colossal, Bedquilt, Salts, Crystal and the other caves under Flint Ridge, Kentucky were mapped together to become the longest cave in the world. The cave is not Colossal, however, but Bedquilt Cave. "According to legend" – Hah! ADVENTURE is based on a real cave, one that is, indeed, now part of the Mammoth Cave System in Kentucky. Swiss Cheese rooms, etc.), but not much more. That version of the game included the main mazeĪnd a portion of the third-level (Complex Junction - Bedquilt. Substantially rewritten and expanded by Don Woods at Stanford Univ.Īccording to legend, Crowther's original version was modeled on anĪ real cavern, called Colossal Cave, which is a part of Kentucky's How many know that the world you explore in ADVENTURE is a real place? The online help for Advent gives this brief description: * THE HISTORY OF ADVENTURE (ABRIDGED) *ĪDVENTURE was originally developed by William Crowther, and later ![]() On the other hand, I am pleased even more to see it because of my close association with the real cave on which the game is based and because of the tradition within the caving (call it spelunking if you must) community that the game ADVENTURE represents. On one hand, having ADVENTURE still distributed in 1994 pays homage to the tradition of this first of all the text-based computer games. Advent is the successor to the game of ADVENTURE, which in one form or another has been known to the computing community for 30 years. Looking through the CD’s contents, I was pleased to see that the source code for Advent is on the disk. My CD came so soon because I am one of the hundreds of authors whose work is contained within. I just received my copy of Apprentice, the CD of source code put out by Celestin Company (mentioned in TidBITS # 228). #1669: OS security updates, ambiguity of emoji, small business payments with Melio, Twitter now X.#1670: Arc Web browser hits 1.0 release, “Do You Use It?” polls about Apple features.#1671: Apple Q3 2023 earnings, new Beats headphones and earbuds, Stage Manager adoption rate, do you use Spotlight?.1672: The hidden power of Google Sheets, Launchpad usage levels, Emergency SOS via satellite in the Maui fires, do you use proxy icons?.1673: macOS 13.5.1, watchOS 9.6.1, copy data from Web tables, what Spotlight is used for, do you use Apple’s Weather app?. ![]()
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