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How to play the first text adventure game... in style.
Everything you need for the ultimate Colossal Cave Adventure experience -- including maps and walkthroughs.
October 19, 2023
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The very first major text adventure game, Colossal Cave Adventure, is 47 years old this year. And the 3D re-make (by the legendary Ken and Roberta Williams, founders of Sierra) has been released (allowing you to explore the cave in Virtual Reality).  So, let's take a few moments to enjoy the original classic... with a little help.

Wether you are new to Colossal Cave Adventure (often simply called “adventure” or “ADVENT”), or have simply not played it in some time, below you will find everything you need to experience the game in the most ultimate way possible.

Step 1) Grab a good terminal emulator

If you have access to it, I highly recommend getting Cool-Retro-Term and using that as the terminal emulator to play Adventure.

Technically, Adventure was often played on teletype systems — which means the results were printed out on paper as your display. However, since many people did originally play the game on CRT monitors from the 1970s, emulating that experience is really the best way to go.

Seriously. Use Cool-Retro-Term and set it to use a vintage Amber display style. You really can't go wrong with that setup.

Step 2) Grab the game

If you are using a Linux (or OpenBSD or FreeBSD) system, you can likely install the game through one of two available packages on most systems: “bsdgames” and “colossal-cave-adventure”.

If you are on Debian, for example, the following will do the trick:

sudo apt install bsdgames

Then simply type “adventure” and you’re off and running.

You can also find the game for Android, Windows, and just about every other platform you can imagine.

Note: There are multiple revisions to this game that have been added over the years. You can find a good list of available revisions here. I personally recommend going with either the absolute original… or the Don Woods version from 1995. Those two are considered to be “classic” revisions.

Step 3) Grab a map

While Colossal Cave Adventure may be one of the earliest examples of text adventures — and it’s no where near as large as many of the games which it inspired — it is still an incredibly large game… and getting lost is extremely easy.

As such… I highly recommend grabbing yourself a map. Luckily, there are oh-so-many maps available — in a wide variety of styles — and covering the many, minor differences between different revisions of the game.

The following map is a fun one. It includes the general layout of the game… but without any spoilers or hints. The person who put this together also has the same map… but with all of the labels and hints included. Grab whichever you like, depending on how difficult you want your experience to be.

While I love the “old school, hand drawn” style of that map… I also quite like this map for the original version (which you can grab here, along with maps for multiple other variations):

Of course, you can always go without a map… but, if you do that, I highly recommend making your own as you go. Trust me. You’ll get lost.

Step 4) Grab a walkthrough (optional)

Ok. Some of you might want the full experience of not knowing what to do or what comes next… others might want to simply see what the game is like from beginning to end without needing to slog through it all.

If you absolutely want spoilers… there are many walkthroughs available. Many. Oh-so-many.

For those of you who opt to use a walkthrough: No judgement. Enjoy this classic game however you see fit.

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As revealed by a lawsuit against the Linux giant.

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Below is the entire announcement, originally as a thread of posts on X, put into a single, easy to read format (you can also read a variation of this announcement, as well as the full lawsuit as a PDF, on their website).

 


 

We just filed a federal lawsuit against IBM’s subsidiary Red Hat for illegal racial discrimination. IBM has allegedly implemented illegal anti-white and anti-male quotas. We will use every tool to hold IBM accountable:

With our co-counsel, including Barnes Law, we filed a lawsuit on behalf of our client against the International Business Machines Corporation’s (IBM) subsidiary, Red Hat, for violating Civil Rights laws by allegedly engaging in discriminatory employment and termination practices against white males.

Our plaintiff is a white male and was a dutiful Red Hat employee for eight years, rising to the position of Senior Director. He was an exemplary employee who had never received a negative review during his time at Red Hat.

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Upon information and belief, 21 of the total 22 individuals were white males.
 
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Powered by an Atari 800. Plus a handheld 6507 computer. And, not kidding, it really was open source.

1982 was a big year for Atari video arcades — with the release of such classics as Gravatar, Millipede, and Space Duel (complimenting the already massive number of popular Atari games filling video game arcades).

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The Atari 800. Ain’t she pretty?

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I kinda want to setup an arcade... just so I can use the Atari Coin Executive.

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  1. A “Coin Monitor” was installed in the coin slot of every arcade game.

  2. Each Coin Monitor is connected back to the Atari Coin Executive workstation (that Atari 800) via “telephone type wiring”.

  3. The arcade manager can then use that Atari 800 to see how much each game is earning.

Screenshot of the Coin Executive main menu

Fun fact: The Atari Coin Executive software was open source and written in a combination of BASIC and Assembly. Or, as Atari put it in 1982: “In Basic and 6502 Assembler - Source listings and manual supplied”.  You can find images of the Atari Coin Executive software over on the AtariAge Forum.

In addition to the above mentioned setup, the Atari Coin Executive also included a handheld computer called the “Data Recorder”.

It's a 1982 Atari handheld!  Sort of!

The “Atari Coin Executive Data Recorder” was powered by a MOS 6507 CPU with 16K of RAM (8 2k chips), and communicated with the Atari Coin Executive computer via 300 baud serial. It even had a small built-in printer.

This allowed people to manage several arcades, in separate locations, by:

  1. Plugging the Data Recorder into each arcade machine equipped with a Coin Monitor.

  2. Then taking the Data Recorder back to the Coin Executive computer and downloading the data into the Coin Executive software.

Finally, here’s a color picture of the whole setup — including the custom desk which was used for the Coin Executive.

Fern not included.
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