Zork

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; the commercial Zork trilogy is available at http://www.ifarchive.org/. See also {grue}. You can play Zork via a Java Applet.

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