WUMPUS(6)

🦋 WUMPUS(6) 🦋

Okay so you opened the WUMPUS(6) manual — iconic. This is the classic Hunt the Wumpus situation, and yes, it’s that Wumpus. 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

wumpus — the classic game of Hunt the Wumpus. That’s the whole name, no cap. 🏹

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

wumpus

superhack

Two commands, two vibes. 🫶

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

So wumpus is a faithful transcription of the 1974 game WUMPUS for the Atari — and it’s literally the first computer game to maintain a consistent external map. Periodt. 🔥

There’s an article on the history of this classic game at here[1] — the actual link is chilling in NOTES, iykyk. 📜

superhack is a structurally similar game with a different premise. Same structural energy, different plot. 🧚

👑 AUTHORS 👑

The original Atari game was designed and written by Gregory Yob. Respect the icon. 🫡

This version was cloned from the original BASIC sources by Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>. Slay. 💌

See ESR’s home page at http://www.catb.org/~esr/ for updates and other resources. Go get the updates, bestie. 🌐

🎀 NOTES 🎀

1. here — http://www.atariarchives.org/bcc1/showpage.php?page=247

That’s the link from earlier, living its best life in the notes. 🍓

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Signed, sealed, delivered with main-character energy: this page is wumpus, dated 12/16/2022, and it belongs to WUMPUS(6). 💖