Zork
/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)