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I could never work out how to wrangle with the parser -- but type a certain F-word to get a very friendly response.

xyzzy?

Twice as much nothing happens
(Data General's 32-bit AOS/VS)

Sweet! thanks for uploading this, been looking for it for a while!

sorry , this game sucks, i wrote better adventure games on dos in my EDV lessions in scool.......... :not_ok:

Dont blame a game for being shitty now.
It was made in another era when everything playable were superb.
And this game is an antique from the late 70-s + probably the first adventure/RPG

As far as I know, it actually IS the first parser-adventure.

played it on Linux a while..... :bye:

It is a classic, sure to appeal to those who played it on teletypes in the 70's or on Compuserve's BBS.

I can certainly understand why it seems tame today, but it's competition was so much worse. Wait a minute, it didn't have competition, it was in a class by itself!

It's only contemporary was Zork which was based partially on Colossal Cave. That ran on the MIT mainframe and was eventually brought to personal computer by Infocom, although it was split into three different parts

I would be very thankful if someone could write a solution for this game.

Hello,

I've just downloaded the text based game called 'Adventure'. I've also downloaded the intrepreter software called WinFrotz and DOSbox but I just can't work out how to start the game.

Each time I choose 'Open new story' in Winfrotz I get a 'fatal code' error. Can anyone please advise?! :cry:

Thank you.

I've just tested it and worked fine... so how are you doing it? have you extracted all the files in the "WinFrotz.zip" compressed achive to a new folder? give us details.

Hi,

Thank you for replying. I've just restarted my computer and it now works! Hurray!

Guess I was just not doing something properly. :crazy:

Thank you for your help anyway! x

how to start the game which program do i need? :sos:

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest_klemen912_* @ Dec 23 2006, 09:39 AM) [snapback]272422[/snapback]</div>According to the review, you need WinFrotz Interpretar - http://www.abandonia.com/utility/WinFrotz.zip

:ok:

if he created it in 1976, how did he know about lord of the rings :huh:

if he created it in 1976, how did he know about lord of the rings...it didn't come until 1978 :huh:

No need to ask the same question twice <_<

LotR was first published in the mid 50's, so there you have your answer.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(guest @ Jun 15 2007, 03:13 PM) [snapback]294546[/snapback]</div>
LOTR first edition was 1955

I played this around 1977 on a DEC PDP-11/60 at Edinburgh University - my big brother was interning on a research project. It was called ADVENT then, because that machine only had six character upper case filenames. Spent hours trying to map it out - that maze of little twisty passages that all look alike is half the map.

There was another machine there that had TREK on it. Much more advanced.

Plugh!

Often quoted...
 

This is such a classic game it has often been referred to in various things. For example: In one of the Tom Clancy novels, 90% sure it is "Patriot Games" the main character of Jack Ryan mutters to himself "You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike."
Also in Windows (I think 95) there was some sort of easter egg involving typing Xyzzy several times.

Anyone else know of any other references made to this game in music, literature, art, or the wonderful world of computers? :-)

Don't laugh at me, but I could never enter the caves :S. But, truth to be told, I never had much patience with this game, although I played lots of text adventures. It's just that this one didn't catch my interest.