The writing on the plaque appears to be in an obscure variant of Old
Dwarvish; however, a closer examination reveals that is is merely extremely
bad handwriting. After a struggle, you finally decipher most of it. It says
"This version of Colossal Cave was unearthed from an old RSX-11 8" floppy
disk by
Andrew Daviel at TRIUMF
and brought to the Web. If you think I'm going to implement a server-side
program to handle conditional moves, dwarves, etc. you're probably out of
luck. Some random moves have now been implemented. If you want to
play with this a lot, please get the
source
files."
(2002) Thanks to modern search engines (google),
I am able to state that Adventure was written by Willie Crowther and Don Woods,
and that it is still available on the Web at various places, e.g.
www.rickadams.org/adventure
