Zork

games /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)