Computing Dictionary
Zork definition
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)
