This in HPR episode 2334 entitled Our Adventure Begin.
It is posted back Lord Yomaranda, and in about 16 minutes long, and Karima Kleens lag.
The summary is, at this cost colossal payment venture, and the adventure on playing it with my son.
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Hello, HPR-Public Radio.
This is Claudio M also known as Claudio Miranda in the real world.
I wanted to do a little HPR-Public Radio episode here on my personal experience some time ago.
Not too long ago, but rather recently, I'll see over the Memorial Day weekend with a game
that many of you may have played when it was originally out or originally created or
really available on back in the day in the 70s and 80s or on your home computer, or even now,
or recently, if you've ever dealt into the terminal and played or loaded the BSD games package.
Talking about adventure, or as it's fully known, colossal cave adventure.
Well, as I said, or the Memorial Day weekend, I came across the news that colossal cave
adventure was open sourced, and if you don't know what I'm talking about, well, I'm going to put
in the link in the show notes to the Wikipedia entry for colossal cave adventure.
Most of the stuff I'm getting right now is actually from a blog post I did back in.
Well, yeah, it was actually over the Memorial Day weekend, so I'll put the link to that,
because there's some video there that people add on to this episode. So, yeah, colossal cave adventure
was open sourced, and the person that took the test to open sourced it with the blessing of
the original authors was Eric S. Raymond, aka ESR, well known for his cathedral in the bizarre,
and very well known in the open sourced community. He was encouraged, actually, by the original
authors, to open sourced it, to clean it up, and ship it under an open sourced license.
Well, as I said, he took on that task, and thus open adventure was born.
Now, I haven't downloaded this yet. I said to my blog post that I would intend to, and I just
completely forgot, just life gets in the way, but anyway, so if you really want to get a feel for
what this game is like, it's a text adventure game, I don't know if any of you are familiar with
those of you that are going on my age or so, it shouldn't be familiar with the the info
calm text adventure game, so this is very much like that as a matter of fact. I think this is the
grand daddy of the mall, so all of them being inspired by this. If I'm wrong, please feel free to
correct me in the comments. But yeah, so he opens sourced it called an open adventure.
Now, you might be thinking, well, big deal. Okay, this is the same thing as what's in the BSD
games package, I can just install that play it. Actually, no, the version that he opens sourced
was actually from the original code, the original version that Crowder and Woods, the authors,
had made it, had created, and that has actually been updated all the way up to 1995 and the version
that he asserted that he opens sourced is the latest latest version of the original Crowder and Woods
release, which as I said from 1995. So it has a lot of stuff that's updated in it that you will
find in the BSD games version because the BSD the one that's in the BSD games package is based on
the original code from from the 1970s. So it's missing a lot of stuff. So you may want to go ahead and
grab the source code for open adventure. I'm not sure if it'll eventually end up in the repositories
for favorite Linux distribution or BSD flavor or what have you, but I'm sure well being open source,
someone will put it in there. But anyway, so I had played it here and there, but at this time
around after seeing this, I really wanted to give it a try. And so I went ahead and I installed the
BSD games package on my fedora laptop and my intention was to get my middle signing to it because
he likes to use the computer that I have and fedora installed on. And I figured let me give
he's more open to playing different types of games than my other two kids are. Let's let me give him
let me give him a taste of what the text adventure games are like. So but before I'd be far
going into this, I want to go into a little bit of history on my own childhood experience of text adventure
games. So yeah, I grew up during the burgeoning home computer industry in the late 1970s and 80s.
I was born in 1972 just saying that's just a bit exact. So my introduction to these computer
get based computer based text adventure games was at a friend's house during a Commodore VIC-20.
Now if I recall correctly, I think it was called Adventure 2 Pirate Cove. Now in my blog post,
I have a YouTube video of it. I'll go ahead and include the link as well for the YouTube videos and
you can get a feeling for what it's like. But yeah, so that was one that I was exposed to.
That was my introduction to the text adventure games. Now me having always been an Atari kid,
I had the Atari 2600 and then I graduated from that to the Kaliko vision and I even learned
basic on a Commodore pet at school when they had these after school activities. So you know,
I was still more into the whole video thing. But when I was introduced to this, I was very intrigued
by it. Of course, no graphics at all. It was all all the graphics, all the imagery was in your mind.
And I was never one. I was never the kind of kid that would look forward to reading. I hated to
read. I hated to read. But this engaged me a whole lot more than any playing old book could. Heck,
I was even a fan of the interactive books where you can you select, you give in the option. If you
want to go down this path, go to the next page. If not, skip to page so and so. And I love those
books. But of course, they're very limited as far as what you can do. So this computer text adventure game
just took it for me. It seemed like it took that interactive book concept and just made it so much
more dynamic. So I found myself imagining, as I was playing the game, imagining what was being described
in just text. And I felt myself going through a range of emotions as my friend and I entered the
commands with results that we had no idea what happened. So since then, I had dealt into similar
games, as I mentioned, like from infacom and others. And I would just spend hours of on hours
or at night, playing these games, late late late nights, just playing these games. It's just completely
engrossed in the gameplay of these text adventure games. And that was from when I had my
metallaquarius because that was my first computer. All the way up until I upgraded to my Apple
to see. I had some games and some friends of mine that let me hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.
That one had me hooked for a while and I would get stuck. And as just for me, there wasn't any video
game that could even come close to this kind of experience. So let's time hop forward to
that memorial day weekend. I put BSD games on my federal laptop on my son, hey, come here.
Let's have us sit down here together and let's play this game together. So I even went so far as to
hit all the F2 and drop down to complete virtual console. That way I could get the whole full
experience of an actual text adventure. No, no, an XOR, no nothing. Just complete command line.
And as he sat there with me, he was kind of hesitant. He was like, I don't know if I want to do this.
But as time passed and I started showing how navigate within the game, I could see it. I could see
what happened to me as a kid. I could see it happening to him. He would just slip into the world
on the colossal cave and text inventors in general, just as I do when I was a sage.
Now, we were both going on this adventure and discovering new ways of just kind of surpassing
obstacles that were detrying and boy, did we die trying a lot. But we had fun. We just had a
great time together the whole time. And after a while, he actually started taking the laptop away
from me. He just grabbed it and started combing during the machine himself. He just wouldn't let me
tie anything. So I just let him have it. I told him to go on and figure it out and put him
the commands and I tell him, no, go this way. And he was saying, no, I'm going to go this way.
It was just great. There was no doubt about it. He was completely hooked.
And so that night, I had him install BSD games on his laptop, which I had put a
temporary for door installation because it's hard drive had died. So I gave him a spare hard drive
just for nonsense. Mom's can get him a new hard drive and I put food on it. Because it's a
this hard drive I had was too small for his when those 10, which is what he normally is there.
So I installed that and I also installed on the food or a desktop that I have in home.
So that way they can play on it there. So I had spoken to him the day after when I was back
at work on on that Tuesday after Memorial Day. And he actually called me and he told me that he couldn't
sleep thinking of how to get past some of the obstacles in the game. And he's already installed
the Android foreign as well. So I told him that I would try and see about finding some of the
tech's adventure games like Zork and all those which I remember playing but I never really had it
and I just kind of played it when I was in stores. But those were ones that were real fun.
Now there is a package called Frost that will allow you to run the games like Zork.
I tried testing it out a while ago but I didn't have much luck and I kind of just dropped it there
because things just got kind of busy. So I want to see if I can eventually come back to that.
So yeah so hopefully that will be something that I can get installed for him
that way we can start embarking on our next text adventure. So yeah the fun thing I remember
playing that was the what he called of the special the special magic words such as XY ZZY which
would do certain things but I won't give away if you haven't played I don't want to give away
what it does you can figure that out for yourself. Oh and I did finally manage to kill the
Wompus. So that's another game that's in the BSD games package. So that one's a little different
in the game play but it's still kind of fun. And he actually showed me a picture my son that he managed
to kill the Wompus as well so very proud, very proud of my son. So but anyways just check it out
be sure to check out the links in the show notes. If you have some sort of Linux or
Unix like operating system installed feel free to install BSD games do a search using your respective
pack manager. It's name differently like for example on free BSD it's BSD games but on
Fedora it's BSD hyphen games so you might want to watch out for that. Anyways I know there's
one other thing but I think I need to do something else. Let me type let me type this one command here
let me see J-U-N-A-S-T-S. Oh oh okay thank you for listening. Opening sound clip taken from the
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