Description:
Colossal Cave Adventure, the 1995 430-point version
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Type: Formula
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Latest Version: 1.20@0
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Tracked Since: Dec 24, 2025
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Links:
Homepage |
formulae.brew.sh
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Category: Other
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Tags:
text-adventure
game
interactive-fiction
retro
c
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Install:
brew install open-adventure
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About:
Open Adventure is a portable C implementation of the original Colossal Cave Adventure, also known as ADVENT. It faithfully recreates the 1995 430-point version, allowing users to explore the famous cave system via text commands. The project serves as a historical preservation effort and a modern, buildable version of the classic text-based adventure game.
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Key Features:
- Faithful recreation of the 430-point Colossal Cave Adventure
- Portable C source code for modern systems
- Supports both traditional and modern command interfaces
- Includes the original game data and parser
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Use Cases:
- Playing the classic text adventure game on modern operating systems
- Studying the history of interactive fiction and early computer games
- Exploring a codebase of a historically significant piece of software
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Alternatives:
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advent
– The original FORTRAN version, which is less portable and harder to compile on modern systems.
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frotz
– A Z-machine interpreter for playing Infocom games, which is a different lineage of text adventures.
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