Zork source and binaries, January 1978

https://github.com/MITDDC/zork-1978-01

by larsbrinkhoff • 6 years ago

63 13 6 years ago

atum472• 6 years ago

I never got to play Zork but I did play Return to Zork. I always loved adventure games. my list of finished games is quite extensive: full throttle, the dig, prisoner of ice, goblins (2 and 3), grim fandango... never finished return to Zork though. one day ill probably will.

thanks for sharing the source code.

vyrotek• 6 years ago

I loved Return to Zork. But I only finished by cheating.

Want some rye?

samplatt• 6 years ago

'Course ya do!

That line is chiseled in stone on the surface of my brain.

atum472• 6 years ago

man, I just love that old guy.

"who is there like us? a damn few. an they are all dead"

I started watching a playthrough on youtube the other day, but I stopped the video where I left when I last played the game. I'll give it one more try before I gave up completely and watching the whole story on video

lunaticlabs• 6 years ago

As one of the developers on this, and the first game that I worked on, it made me smile to hear that you and others liked it. I’m glad it brought you good times, even if it took 25 years to find out!

m463• 6 years ago

  King's Quest
  Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
  Leather Goddesses of Phobos
  Zack McCraken and the Alien Mind Benders
  Myst ()?
  The Longest Journey
  Monkey Island
  Deponia

082349872349872• 6 years ago

To go meta, see "Inform 7". It's a system in which one programs guess-the-verb text adventures by using a guess-the-verb semi-natural largely-declarative programming language.

http://inform7.com

pmiller2• 6 years ago

And here, you can see the Inform 7 source for Zork: http://i7-dungeon.sourceforge.net/source.html

teddyh• 6 years ago

The ownership status of these files is not entirely clear.

And to think that some people like to cast doubt on even reading GPL code… What would they think of this?

Anyway, for actually free classic text gaming, see http://www.catb.org/~esr/open-adventure/

ashton314• 6 years ago

My earliest memories of interacting with the computer are those of playing Zork with my father. When I grew older and learned how to program, my most ambitious project in high school was a text based adventure game engine written in Common Lisp. I utilized the natural language parser that Paul Graham Details in _On Lisp_ to parse game instructions. Game elements like the Loud Room (where every command just echos until you say the magic word) or the maze drove me to create numerous game permutations.

I love Zork so much. So many good memories with that game.

dang• 6 years ago

Related from 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23108626

2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21740147

2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19672436

2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15147346

palad1n• 6 years ago

Yeah, I was sort of into interactive fiction like over a decade ago. I actually converted a random haiku generator from JavaScript to Inform 6.

ChicagoDave• 6 years ago

I wonder if this would compile with ZILF:

https://foss.heptapod.net/zilf/zilf

Zork source and binaries, January 1978

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