< 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 .
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(1998-09-21)