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Zork :
/zork/ The second of the great early experiments in
computer fantasy gaming; see ADVENT. Zork was originally
written on MIT-DM during the late 1970s, later distributed
with BSD Unix as a patched, sourceless RT-11 Fortran
binary (see retrocomputing) and commercialised as "The Zork
Trilogy" by Infocom. The Fortran source was later rewritten
for portability and released to Usenet under the name
"Dungeon".
Both Fortran "Dungeon" and translated C versions are
available from many FTP archives.
[{Jargon File]
(1998-09-21)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Zork : /zork/ n. The second of the great early experiments in computer
fantasy gaming; see ADVENT. Originally written on MIT-DM during
1977-1979, later distributed with BSD Unix (as a patched, sourceless
RT-11 FORTRAN binary; see retrocomputing) and commercialized as `The
Zork Trilogy' by Infocom. The FORTRAN source was later rewritten for
portability and released to Usenet under the name "Dungeon". Both
FORTRAN "Dungeon" and translated C versions are available at many FTP
sites. See also grue.
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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