wjb@goanna.UUCP (07/18/86)
In article <869@ucbcad.BERKELEY.EDU>, chapman@pavepaws.berkeley.edu (Brent Chapman) writes: > In any case, most microcomputer adventure games (especially the earlier > ones, such as the Scott Adams stuff, and ZORK and such) were written in > assembler. Not true! ZORK originated at MIT, written in FORTRAN (I think). The micro versions had an assembler core interpreter, but the actual adventures were in a high-level-language, especially created for ZORK. Warwick Bolam CSNet: wjb@goanna.oz Dept of Computing UUCP: seismo!munnari!goanna.oz!wjb Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology 124 La Trobe St ARPA: munnari!goanna.oz!wjb@SEISMO.ARPA Melbourne, Victoria 3000 AUSTRALIA
mg@cidam.UUCP (07/19/86)
In article <869@ucbcad.BERKELEY.EDU>, chapman@pavepaws.berkeley.edu (Brent Chapman) writes: > In article <515@ur-tut.UUCP> sag2@ur-tut.UUCP (Dent Arthur Dent) writes: > > > >... ... .... What I really need is the source. Almost any language is > >acceptable, but C is preferable and Pascal is a distant second. These > >games were great and I would really like to be able to play them again. > > In any case, most microcomputer adventure games (especially the earlier > ones, such as the Scott Adams stuff, and ZORK and such) were written in > assembler. > > > Brent Actually, from what I read, MUDL (or somesuch name) was the original language for ZORK. What I really want to say is that on the 4.2 distribution tape there is something called ddl (Dungeon Description Language). Ddl means that you no longer have to pine for adventureland (whatever that is) because you can write a ddl description for yourself. I have never used ddl myself so I can't comment on its utility. Nor do we keep sources on line (no disk space) hence I haven't checked to see if it's VAX specific. I think that it was written at UCLA. I have vague memories of some skeleton adventure style games provided with ddl, so it shouldn't be too hard to get something built. -- Mike ----------- Michael Gigante [Research Engineer] UUCP:..!seismo!munnari!cidam.rmit.oz!mg Dept Mechanical & Production Eng. ARPA:mg%cidam.rmit.oz@seismo.css.gov Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology CSNET:mg%cidam.rmit.oz GPO Box 2476V Phone: +61 3 660-2161 Melbourne Vic., Australia 3001
thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (07/20/86)
In article <409@goanna.oz> wjb@goanna.oz (Warwick Bolam) writes: >Not true! ZORK originated at MIT, written in FORTRAN (I think). Yes, but no: ZORK was written at MIT in MDL (aka "muddle"). -- =Spencer ({ihnp4,decvax}!utah-cs!thomas, thomas@utah-cs.ARPA)
rs@mirror.UUCP (07/21/86)
ZORK was written by the people involved in the real-time
modelling group at MIT. The language is called MDL,
also spelled MUDDLE, and stands for Modelling Language
or some such. It looked kind of like LISP, except it
used <> instead of (), and more "classical" syntax for
datatypes. It ran on DEC 10's and 20's, under MIT's
ITS operating system (don't know about Twenex). I don't
know of other MDL code, although their certainly was some.
The authors of ZORK (Leibeling, et. al.) went on to found
Infocom and others, where they wrote Zork, Deadline, etc.,
in (first) assembly language, (then) an in-house gaming
language.
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