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From: ilacqua@bucsb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sources.games
Subject: Re: Zork
Message-ID: <104@bucsb.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 13:05:16 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 12 13:05:16 1985
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Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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With all this talk of zork lately I thought I'd throw in my two-cents
worth......

%zork	 
>You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded
>front door.
>There is a small mailbox here.
>>open mailbox
>Opening the mailbox reveals:
>  A leaflet.
>>read leaflet
>Taken.
>		    Welcome to Dungeon!
> 
>   Dungeon is a game of adventure, danger, and low cunning.  In it
>you will explore some of the most amazing territory ever seen by mortal
>man.  Hardened adventurers have run screaming from the terrors contained
>within.
> 
>   In Dungeon, the intrepid explorer delves into the forgotten secrets
>of a lost labyrinth deep in the bowels of the earth, searching for
>vast treasures long hidden from prying eyes, treasures guarded by
>fearsome monsters and diabolical traps!
>
>   No DECsystem should be without one!
>
>   Dungeon was created at the Programming Technology Division of the MIT
>Laboratory for Computer Science by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce
>Daniels, and Dave Lebling.  It was inspired by the Adventure game of
>Crowther and Woods, and the Dungeons and Dragons game of Gygax
>and Arneson.  The original version was written in MDL (alias MUDDLE).
>The current version was translated from MDL into FORTRAN IV by
>a somewhat paranoid DEC engineer who prefers to remain anonymous.
> 

So, thats where Zork came from.
How did it get here?

From 'root':  

>No, we do not have zork sources. What comes with the
>4.2 Unix distribution tape is a PDP-11 binary file and
>a small C program to start it up (the VAX can run PDP-11
>code if the right magic bits get set up.)

  Also, Dungeon *is* Zork, not a copy of Zork thus Infocom
owns Dungeon. The writers of Zork are the founders of Infocom
so, you can see how Infocom comes to own it.
  I would guess that it was distribed like Hack (Hack is copyrighted
you are free to do what you wish with your copy, but you can't sell it
etc.). If so maybe it could be posted???

Note : I DO NOT have access to the above binary file
       (someone who did could post in a 'binhex' form?)

                               J. Ilacqua
                               Boston Univ.

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