ilacqua@bucsb.UUCP (11/12/85)
***munch***munch***munch***munch***munch***munch***munch***munch*** 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. =====>BITNET:engemnc@bostonu 'Sir, I realy think you should look at the *other* battle star!'
kemasa@sdcc13.UUCP (kemasa) (11/15/85)
Dear Net, Just thought you might like some Zork money and a copy of the source for Zork4, but as you can see it has a copyright and so the rest of the source can't be sent. Although I have changed it from Basic+ to Basic+2 (Close to VAX/VMS Basic) does that void the Copyright? All Zork really consists of is the data files and a little logic to run it. Have Fun running the Endgame. :-) Kemasa. -------------- 1 REM - ZORK4. See LEAFL.ZRK for description. 2 REM - Original version by unknown authors. 3 REM - This version with extended features by\ 4 REM - Emery Galambos 5 REM - Brian Horn 6 REM - & 7 REM - Kevin Herbert 8 REM - Copyright (C) Emery Galambos, 1978. 10 PRINT "Congratulations, you have earned the right to" & \ PRINT "join the implementors in the endgame. Unfortunately," & \ PRINT "due to contractual problems with the Frobbozz" & \ PRINT "Magic Dungeon Company, there is no endgame yet." & \ PRINT "Be on the lookout for a new and exciting endgame" & \ PRINT "in the near future." & \ END ------------------------------------------------------ I I I 673 I I In flathead G.U.E. I I we trust I I ----- I I / \ I I / 0 0 \ I I I > I I I \ \_/ / I I \ / I I ----- I I J. P. Flathead E. Pluribus I I (Sec. of the Treasury) Zorkdom I I I ------------------------------------------------------ The house is owned by ZORK (Zorkers of Regional Kalifornia).
bruce@bnr-vpa.UUCP (01/04/86)
------------------- For Canadian sites only: A long time ago Bill Randle at tekred made an offer to distribute the Decus dungeon game (now called Zork) on tape: > I have a copy of the DECUS dungeon that has been converted to > f77 to run under Unix. It works quite well on split i/d pdps > and vaxen. I'll send a copy for a S.A.S. Tape. > -Bill Randle > Tektronix, Inc. I obtained that from him, and I will now mail it to Canadian sites only who request it. (If this posting is seen outside Canada, the distribution feature isn't working.) To obtain a copy, send mail to me at: {utcs, utzoo}!bnr-vpa!bruce I will mail the source back to you. It will consist of approximately 12 shar files. It is big. If I get requests from sites close to one another, I will mail to one, and let the others know where they can get it. Thus, by requesting the source from me, you may be requested to pass it along to others. Besides the source, you will need: 1) A Fortran Compiler (f77 or very similar) 2) Uuencode/uudecode (to decode a binary data file) If you need Uuencode/uudecode as well, let me know, and I can send it along. For HP9000 sites: If you are running HP's FORTRAN/9000 (similar to f77) let me know. That is what we have, and I can send the required source diff's. It is my understanding that the source is in the Public Domain. If I am informed otherwise, this offer will have to be withdrawn. -- -Bruce Townsend Voice Processing Applications, Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Ontario. Mail path: {utzoo, utcs, bnr-di, bnr-mtl}!bnr-vpa!bruce