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Software Developer Tracks Down Code for a Beloved 41-Year-Old Text Adventur

You are in a large, tarnished brass bed in an old, musty bedroom. More than 40 years later, after five years of searching, the original Fortran code for that game has been re-discovered and resurrected, thanks to the diligent efforts of an amateur game preservationist who had fond memories of playing the game when he was 11. It’s a story of dedication and perseverance, but most of all how far one can go with the fondness for a minor piece of tech culture.

Unfortunately, “after the demise of GEnie ([along with] The Source and Compuserve), it seemed that the game had been lost forever,” O’Dwyer wrote in a blog post.

O’Dwyer had discovered that registration had “remained on file somewhere in the depths of Washington, D.C., for forty years.”