Wander (1974) release, and questions answered

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.

Wander was possibly the first program for creating text-adventure games. Once thought lost, it has now been 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.

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.

Wander was possibly the first program for creating text-adventure games. Once thought lost, it has now been found.

Previously I wrote about Wander, the 1974 mainframe text adventure game-creation system by Peter Langston, which was recently rediscovered. You can now play Wander online. This em-dosbox repackagin…