# Lessons from Colossal Caves **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/lessons-from-colossal-caves/277995 **Category:** Community Building **Created:** [September 6, 2023, 9:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lessons-from-colossal-caves/277995 "2023-09-06T09:46:27Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 6
### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield) #### Post date: [September 6, 2023, 11:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lessons-from-colossal-caves/277995/6 "2023-09-06T11:11:58Z")
> [@51mon](#): > > I used to play colossal caves on the 370/158 You can re-live that experience here: > **[Colossal Cave Adventure by William Crowther and Donald Woods](https://iplayif.com/?story=http:%2F%2Fifarchive.org%2Fif-archive%2Fgames%2Fzcode%2FAdvent_Crowther.z8)** > > Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as Adventure or ADVENT) is a text-based adventure game, released in 1976 by developer Will Crowther for the PDP-10 mainframe computer. It was expanded upon in 1977 by Don Woods. In the game, the player explores a... Or install [Discourse Frotz 🧙](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-frotz-an-interactive-fiction-game-bot/140617) and play it within Discourse using this file [http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/Advent\_Crowther.z8](http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/Advent_Crowther.z8) (One day I will add Chat support to Discourse Frotz, by porting over the relevant code from [Discourse Chatbot 🤖](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chatbot-now-smarter-than-chatgpt/256652)) Discussed here: > **[Crowther's 1976 Adventure ported to I7, with source](https://intfiction.org/t/crowthers-1976-adventure-ported-to-i7-with-source/2181)** > > I’ve finally finished my work on converting Crowther’s original 1976 version of Colossal Cave, pre-Woods, to Inform 7. The source is available here: ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive … nform.html and the compiled z-machine file is available here:... --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lessons-from-colossal-caves/277995)._