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I discovered ADVENT because it was bundled in with DSLinux [0], the Linux distribution for the Nintendo DS. There was a long period in grade school where I was kinda obsessed with it and it's derivatives, especially Mike Arnautov's 770-point expansion [1]. I remember pulling apart his A-code sources (a custom DSL for implementing his versions of the game) to make my own additions to the game. From there I discovered the Inform 7 authoring system [2] and the wider text adventure/interactive fiction ecosystem.
I came into the whole thing comparatively late (sometime in the late 2000s, I guess?), but Colossal Cave is still a huge part of my childhood. Expansions, ports, remixes, and re-imaginings are already a tradition for the game: even the version most people are familiar with is Don Woods's expansion of Will Crowther's original code. I'm psyched to see the Williams's contribution to the canon!
[0] https://dslinux.org/
[1] https://mipmip.org/downloads.html
[2] http://inform7.com/
That's my project! :)
Glad someone posted it. The source is available here: https://github.com/mmastrac/adventure