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Advent Dashboard widget from gandreas

Someone has pulled off a neat coup and ported the original Adventure game into a Dashboard widget that runs on the Macintosh (OS 10.4 or later).

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Explore the depths of Colossal Cave with the grandfather of all text adventure games. Includes an enhanced UI featuring inventory, exits and scores.

I think this demonstrates just how much capability can go into a Dashboard widget on the Mac.

When I first heard about this game (Advent) back in the late 1970s, it sounded almost like magic.

Then a couple years later, I heard about Zork. I read an article about it in Creative Computing magazine. Zork sounded even more amazing, and the article was very educational.

That article was the first time I ever heard about object-oriented computing, object properties, and so on. This was back around 1981!

Anyway, the Mac is becoming such a great gaming platform, even the Dashboard can play some heavy duty RPGs now.

posted by John Collins @ 7:22 PM