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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>ADVENT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="admin.html" title="admin"/><link rel="next" href="adware.html" title="adware"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">ADVENT</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="admin.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="adware.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="ADVENT"/><dt xmlns="" id="ADVENT"><b>ADVENT</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/ad<61>vent/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The prototypical computer adventure game, first designed by Will
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Crowther on the <a href="../P/PDP-10.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-10</i></a> in the mid-1970s as an
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attempt at computer-refereed fantasy gaming, and expanded into a
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puzzle-oriented game by Don Woods at Stanford in 1976. (Woods had been one
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of the authors of <a href="../I/INTERCAL.html"><i class="glossterm">INTERCAL</i></a>.) Now better known as
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Adventure or Colossal Cave Adventure, but the
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<a href="../T/TOPS-10.html"><i class="glossterm">TOPS-10</i></a> operating system permitted only six-letter
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filenames in uppercase. See also <a href="../V/vadding.html"><i class="glossterm">vadding</i></a>,
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<a href="../Z/Zork.html"><i class="glossterm">Zork</i></a>, and <a href="../I/Infocom.html"><i class="glossterm">Infocom</i></a>.</p><div class="figure"><a id="id2897239"/><p class="title"><b>Figure<EFBFBD>1.<2E>Screen shot of the original ADVENT game</b></p><table border="0" bgcolor="#E0E0E0"><tr><td><pre class="screen">
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Orange River Chamber
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You are in a splendid chamber thirty feet high. The walls are frozen rivers of
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orange stone. An awkward canyon and a good passage exit from east and west
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sidesof the chamber.
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A cheerful little bird is sitting here singing.
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>drop rod
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Dropped.
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>take bird
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You catch the bird in the wicker cage.
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>take rod
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Taken.
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>w
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At Top of Small Pit
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At your feet is a small pit breathing traces of white mist. A west passage ends
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here except for a small crack leading on.
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Rough stone steps lead down the pit.
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>down
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In Hall of Mists
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You are at one end of a vast hall stretching forward out of sight to the west.
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There are openings to either side. Nearby, a wide stone staircase leads
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downward. The hall is filled with wisps of white mist swaying to and fro almost
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as if alive. A cold wind blows up the staircase. There is a passage at the top
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of a dome behind you.
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Rough stone steps lead up the dome.
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</pre></td></tr></table></div><p>This game defined the terse, dryly humorous style since expected in
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text adventure games, and popularized several tag lines that have become
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fixtures of hacker-speak: “<span class="quote">A huge green fierce snake bars the
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way!</span>” “<span class="quote">I see no X here</span>” (for some noun X). “<span class="quote">You
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are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.</span>” “<span class="quote">You are
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in a little maze of twisty passages, all different.</span>” The
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‘magic words’ <a href="../X/xyzzy.html"><i class="glossterm">xyzzy</i></a> and
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<a href="../P/plugh.html"><i class="glossterm">plugh</i></a> also derive from this game.</p></dd><dd><p>Crowther, by the way, participated in the exploration of the Mammoth
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& Flint Ridge cave system; it actually <span class="emphasis"><em>has</em></span> a
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Colossal Cave and a Bedquilt as in the game, and the Y2 that also
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turns up is cavers' jargon for a map reference to a secondary
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entrance.</p><p>ADVENT sources are available for FTP at <a href="ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/doc/misc/if-archive/games/source/advent.tar.Z" target="_top">ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/doc/misc/if-archive/games/source/advent.tar.Z</a>.
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You can also play it as a <a href="http://www.forkexec.com/html/play-advent.html" target="_top">Java applet</a>.
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There is a good page of resources at the <a href="http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/" target="_top">Colossal Cave Adventure
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Page</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="admin.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="adware.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">admin<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>adware</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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