An Introduction to Gnome Inform7, Part 1

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jun 5, 2008 6:30 PM EDT
Linux Journal; By Daniel Bartholomew
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It all started in 1975 with a man named Will Crowther who wanted to create something for his daughters that tied together two of his loves: role playing games and cave exploration. The result was a game called "Adventure" (also sometimes called "Colossal Cave"). He wrote the game on the mainframe he used at work and while his daughters loved it, others who discovered the game did to, and they shared it far and wide. Stanford student Don Woods discovered the program on one of the university computers in 1976 and with Crowther's permission extended the Fortran original, adding more rooms and treasure.

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