Crowther's Original Adventure Source Code Found [Slashdot]

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drxenos writes "I don't know how many of you are fans of old-school text adventures (interactive fiction), but Will Crowther's original Fortran source code has been located in a backup of Don Woods's old student account. For fans like me, this is like finding the Holy Grail."Read more of this story (http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/14/011230&from=rss) at Slashdot.
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[NeoZeedeater]

I definitely find it interesting that the usually mentioned 1972 date for the game is likely at least three years off. That's a pretty big time frame, especially since this is such an important game historically.