• Zork story

    From lars.brinkhoff@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 16 12:16:25 2018
    It's well known that Bob Supnik managed to get hold of the Zork source code from MIT. What is not very well know is that this feat was repeated by someone else.

    I posted his story here:
    https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/813

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  • From Happy MAC XL@21:1/5 to lars.br...@gmail.com on Wed Apr 18 06:59:16 2018
    On Monday, April 16, 2018 at 8:16:28 PM UTC+1, lars.br...@gmail.com wrote:
    It's well known that Bob Supnik managed to get hold of the Zork source code from MIT. What is not very well know is that this feat was repeated by someone else.

    I posted his story here:
    https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/813

    Interesting!

    Side note, in the ZIL group one of the members is 'porting' Zork from MDL source code into ZIL.

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  • From lars.brinkhoff@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Happy MAC XL on Thu Apr 19 00:06:31 2018
    Happy MAC XL wrote:
    Side note, in the ZIL group one of the members is 'porting' Zork from MDL source
    code into ZIL.

    I'd rather have it the other way around, since PDP-10 MDL is getting into shape. I'm hopeful we'll soon be able to run MDL Zork in ITS, just like it
    was done in the very beginning.

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  • From Happy MAC XL@21:1/5 to lars.br...@gmail.com on Fri Apr 20 10:29:13 2018
    On Thursday, April 19, 2018 at 8:06:35 AM UTC+1, lars.br...@gmail.com wrote:
    Happy MAC XL wrote:
    Side note, in the ZIL group one of the members is 'porting' Zork from MDL source
    code into ZIL.

    I'd rather have it the other way around, since PDP-10 MDL is getting into shape. I'm hopeful we'll soon be able to run MDL Zork in ITS, just like it
    was done in the very beginning.

    Keep me posted please!
    Thanks

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  • From void@bozo.null@21:1/5 to lars.brinkhoff@gmail.com on Wed Apr 6 14:57:26 2022
    On 2018-04-16, lars.brinkhoff@gmail.com <lars.brinkhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
    It's well known that Bob Supnik managed to get hold of the Zork source code from MIT. What is not very well know is that this feat was repeated by someone else.

    I posted his story here:
    https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/813

    Hello, I'm late (and lazy to set up a chaosnet bridge to Slackware,
    so here I am):

    How's the license of these old Zork/Dungeon editions? Because most
    of the Dungeon ports for Unix-like are non-commercial

    http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/15.0/games/dungeon/README:

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    dungeon (text adventure game)

    This "mainframe zork" has everything contained in the commercial ZORK
    I, part of ZORK II, and the endgame from ZORK III. Some mainframe
    computers don't have this full version, so if your mainframe doesn't
    have the endgame, the Bank of Zork, and the puzzle room, you are in for
    some new challenges.

    This version of Dungeon seems to be earlier than any of the ones
    available at www.if-archive.org. It was posted to USEnet ages ago. This
    build uses slightly modified sources, needed to get modern GNU Fortran
    to compile them.

    BTW, the source files say copyright INFOCOM, but allow non-commercial
    use. This was the last version before INFOCOM went commercial.

    This build includes the game map in /usr/doc/dungeon-$VERSION

    You can build a debugging (aka cheating) version of Dungeon by passing DEBUG=yes in the script's environment. This enables tracing and the GDT command.

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    Could it be possible to ask MIT to set an early (but complete-ish)
    release of ZORK as public domain or MIT (no pun intended) license?

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