Wander (1974) — a lost mainframe game is found!

While a lot of people have caught this news already, I thought I’d put it here for completeness sake. Recently I caught the trail of an ancient text adventure creation system, and with the help of Peter Langston (the author) and Anthony Hope, managed to track it down. ahopeful.wordpress.com/2015/04/ … -is-found/ bluerenga.wordpress.com/2015/04 … -answered/ Quoting from Anthony: The second link has a ZIP that should compile out of the box. Binaries are being worked on.

(For the opening of this saga, you might want to read Anthony’s post first.) There is a text adventure creation system that dates back to before Crowther wrote ADVENT. I’ve been stalkin…

While a lot of people have caught this news already, I thought I’d put it here for completeness sake. Recently I caught the trail of an ancient text adventure creation system, and with the help of Peter Langston (the author) and Anthony Hope, managed to track it down. ahopeful.wordpress.com/2015/04/ … -is-found/ bluerenga.wordpress.com/2015/04 … -answered/ Quoting from Anthony: The second link has a ZIP that should compile out of the box. Binaries are being worked on.

Some games I’ve investigated for the All the Adventures project simply don’t seem to exist any more. I have cataloged them here for reference and especially if someone has a lead. ̶…

While a lot of people have caught this news already, I thought I’d put it here for completeness sake. Recently I caught the trail of an ancient text adventure creation system, and with the help of Peter Langston (the author) and Anthony Hope, managed to track it down. ahopeful.wordpress.com/2015/04/ … -is-found/ bluerenga.wordpress.com/2015/04 … -answered/ Quoting from Anthony: The second link has a ZIP that should compile out of the box. Binaries are being worked on.