Adventure

Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as ADVENT, Colossal Cave, or Adventure) is a text adventure game, developed between 1975 and 1977 by Will Crowther for the PDP-10 mainframe. The game was expanded upon in 1977 with help from Don Woods, and other programmers created variations on the game and ports to other systems in the following years. It was ported to MVS using PL/I around 1978.

⚠️ DO NOT EDIT ADVNT360.PL1 with VS Code it will replace non-printable characters with multibyte UTF characters and will prevent it from being compiled ⚠️

Install SYSGEN

1. In the SYSGEN SOFTWARE folder clone this repo using: git clone https://github.com/MVS-sysgen/Adventure.git ADVENT
2. Then in TSO run INSTALL ADVENT
3. Add SYSC.PL1LIB to SYS1.PROCLIB(IKJACCNT) and then re-login:

...
//IKJACCNT EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,DYNAMNBR=64,
//             PARM='EX ''SYS1.CMDPROC(TSOLOGON)'''
//STEPLIB  DD  DISP=SHR,DSN=SYSC.PL1LIB  <== add this line
//SYSHELP  DD  DISP=SHR,DSN=SYS1.HELP
...

Install Generic

1. run make_jcl.sh > adventure.jcl
2. Submit the JCL on MVS 3.8j using the socket reader: ncat -v -w5 localhost 3505 < adventure.jcl
3. Add SYSC.PL1LIB to SYS1.PROCLIB(IKJACCNT) and then re-login:

...
//IKJACCNT EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,DYNAMNBR=64,
//             PARM='EX ''SYS1.CMDPROC(TSOLOGON)'''
//STEPLIB  DD  DISP=SHR,DSN=SYSC.PL1LIB  <== add this line
//SYSHELP  DD  DISP=SHR,DSN=SYS1.HELP
...

How to play

In TSO type ADVENT and play the game. To exit type quit.