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Source code for a 1977 version of Zork

7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 5 comments · first 2020-05-07 · latest 2025-11-21

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  1. Original MDL version: https://github.com/MITDDC/zork DECUS fortran version: https://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/source/dungeon-3.... f77 version for Unix: https://github.com/videogamepreservation/zork-fortran (GNU fortran port:…
    comment by musicale · 2025-11-21 · in Microsoft makes Zork open-source
  2. …the years (even on a CD that came with a game programming book of some sort), and copies like this: https://github.com/MITDDC/zork What's the lineage here?
    comment by bluedino · 2025-11-20 · in Microsoft makes Zork open-source
  3. Hasn't the code to Zork been available for ages? For instance: https://github.com/MITDDC/zork
    comment by ginko · 2025-11-20 · in Microsoft makes Zork open-source
  4. …Zork source code, 1977 (github.com/mitddc) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23108626 https://github.com/MITDDC/zork About MDL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDL_(programming_language) >MDL (programming language) >Paradigms:…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2022-01-19 · in OpenGOAL: Port of Jak and Daxter, written in GOAL, a custom Lisp by Naughty Dog
  5. …pretty Lispy (example at [1]). Whether it qualifies as "a Lisp" depends on your definition. [1]: https://github.com/MITDDC/zork/tree/master/zork
    comment by pcwalton · 2022-01-19 · in OpenGOAL: Port of Jak and Daxter, written in GOAL, a custom Lisp by Naughty Dog