billr@tekred.UUCP (Bill Randle) (01/14/87)
Dungeon/Zork lovers: I received this message from John Gilmore saying that he has been working on the sources, adding comments, etc. so I am delaying posting the remainder of the Unix dungeon sources for a bit so that the latest and greatest gets distributed. John or I will keep you posted on the status. -Bill Randle Tektronix, Inc. billr@tekred.TEK.COM P.S. In case you want to check your news receiving capability, parts 1 and 2 were posted to net.sources.games before I got John's note. ------------------------------------ I got a version of Zork from you in February 1986. I have spent a lot of time working on it. I merged in the comments from the original DEC Fortran code, so it is maintainable. (You can now understand what the inscrutable Fortran code is doing!) I split out all the COMMON statements into header files, so it is maintainable (the same declaration doesn't occur in 50 different places scatterred among 30 source files -- with two of the declarations slightly different for no particular reason.) I was ready a month ago to send out my version to the 8 or 10 people who cared last time I announced that Zork was available, but I found one further problem with the merge between your sources and the DECUS sources -- the cave file is slightly different. The DECUS one seems to be slightly more advanced, but it may depend on changes in the Fortran code too, so I can't just drop in the new cave file. Your advice on this is solicited. (I got the DECUS version from the Arpanet simtel20 archives -- that's where I got the original commented code too.) But, please don't post your version to the net! I'd much rather just send your, or post, the version I got from you last year and did all that work on, punting the question of the DECUS game file, than have your version get sent to everyone while having an infinitely superior version sitting on my disk. John [You are welcome to post this message in explanation of the delay, if you choose to delay or abort your posting, as I hope you will.] -- -Bill Randle Tektronix, Inc. billr@tekred.TEK.COM