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Later that year, William would go on to create Colossal Cave Adventure, one of the first examples of interactive fiction, based on his caving experiences with Pat in the Mammoth Cave system as a way to connect with his daughters after the divorce. [4] Pat first encountered the game at a Boston meeting of the Cave Research Foundation in 1976 or ...
The cave passages adjoining the Ease Gill main streamway were connected to Link Pot and Pippikin Pot in 1978, and Pippikin was itself connected to Lost John's Cave by diving in 1989. With its many entrances, the Ease Gill system offers cavers a wide variety of through trips; the Ease Gill streamway is regarded as one of the finest in the UK.
In Colossal Cave, or more simply called Adventure, the player moves around an imaginary cave system by entering simple, two-word commands and reading text describing the result. [4] Crowther used his extensive knowledge of cave exploration as a basis for the gameplay, and there are many similarities between the locations in the game and those ...
Colossal Cave Adventure running on a PDP-11/34 with a monitor, showing the point system. Colossal Cave Adventure is a text-based adventure game wherein the player explores a mysterious cave that is rumored to be filled with treasure and gold. The player must explore the cave system and solve puzzles by using items that they find to obtain the ...
Millican Dalton (20 April 1867 – 5 February 1947) was a British self-styled "Professor of Adventure". ... This cave was inhabited for nigh-on fifty years by Dalton ...
The Cave Research Group of Great Britain separated from BSA in 1948. [8] Jim Eyre was one of the first European cavers to explore the caves of Asia. Interest in caving grew rapidly in the 1950s and 60s. Neil Moss was the victim of a famous caving accident after descending a narrow unexplored shaft in Peak Cavern in Derbyshire 1959. This period ...
Historically the cave was known as the Devil's Arse, under which name it is described in William Camden's Britannia of 1586: ...there is a cave or hole within the ground called, saving your reverence, The Devils Arse, that gapeth with a wide mouth and hath in it many turnings and retyring roomes, wherein, for sooth, Gervase of Tilbury, whether for want of knowing the truth, or upon a delight ...
Jim Eyre (1925–2008) was a British caver, known for being one of the first European cavers to explore the caves of Asia. [1] In 1946 in Lancaster , Eyre helped to found the Red Rose Cave and Pot Hole Club, where he was prominent in the earliest exploration of the Ease Gill Caverns .