Does anyone know the history of the Hunt the Wumpus game?
I know I played it on the Oxford University 1905a machine in about 1975. We found a Fortran version dated from the 1980s which is now in the examples directory of the fpt distribution on simconglobal.com, but I would love to see the original code. The Fortran example runs under gfortran or ifort so if anyone would like to play Hunt the Wumpus it is there for you.
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The wikipedia page Hunt the Wumpus - Wikipedia has some history
The article from Creative Computing archived at https://www.atariarchives.org/bcc1/showpage.php?page=247 has the Basic source code listing.
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Maybe, of interest here:
- wumpus: four implementations of the game, one in Fortran.
- My modern Fortran version with dialog(1)-based text user interface.
- My FORTRAN 77 version.
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@DavidB and interkosmos - many thanks. Now I know who wrote the original.
The 1973 date makes sense - I would have seen it on the Oxford 1906A in 1975. Later, waiting for jobs, we wrote it in Algol 60 on a DEC PDP8 (code long lost) but I knew there were many versions.
It is still a good game!