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Original MDL source code for MIT's version of Zork

12 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 0 stories, 12 comments · first 2015-02-15 · latest 2025-05-10

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  1. …the source code decades later, I found out there actually was, called "TROLL-FLAG!-FLAG"! https://github.com/itafroma/zork-mdl https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31846457 DonHopkins on June 23, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on:…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2025-05-10 · in Inventing the Adventure Game (1984)
  2. …[3] https://www.saildart.org/TIPS[P,DOC]3 [4] https://archive.org/details/getlamp-rgriffiths [5] https://github.com/itafroma/zork-mdl [6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13514918 [7] http://www.stormtiger.org/bob/humor/pournell/story.h…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2025-01-20 · in Zork: The Great Inner Workings (2020)
  3. …[3] https://www.saildart.org/TIPS[P,DOC]3 [4] https://archive.org/details/getlamp-rgriffiths [5] https://github.com/itafroma/zork-mdl [6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13514918 [7] http://www.stormtiger.org/bob/humor/pournell/story.h…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2021-11-07 · in Ask HN: What was it like to use BBS?
  4. thanks I hope thats the end of that rabbithole, that MDL almost looks like XML neat: https://github.com/itafroma/zork-mdl/blob/master/rooms.mud#L...
    comment by larrykwg · 2017-09-03 · in The DUNGEON (Zork I) source
  5. The original MDL source code is beautiful to read: https://github.com/itafroma/zork-mdl
    comment by DonHopkins · 2017-09-03 · in The DUNGEON (Zork I) source
  6. …SimCity for their PhD thesis. [4] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDL_(programming_language) [2] https://github.com/itafroma/zork-mdl [3] http://www.fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html [4] https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/doc/1806122688.html?FMT=AB…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2017-08-23 · in The Enduring Legacy of Zork
  7. …[3] https://www.saildart.org/TIPS[P,DOC]3 [4] https://archive.org/details/getlamp-rgriffiths [5] https://github.com/itafroma/zork-mdl [6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13514918 [7] http://www.stormtiger.org/bob/humor/pournell/story.h…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2017-08-23 · in The Enduring Legacy of Zork
  8. …behind the scenes of a world you visited years ago, like the Disney's Keys to the Kingdom Tour! https://github.com/itafroma/zork-mdl
    comment by DonHopkins · 2017-02-21 · in Development content accidentally shipped on a DOS CD-ROM game from 1993
  9. …but not conservative because he also steals objects from your inventory that are still in use!) https://github.com/itafroma/zork-mdl/blob/be079a4ed234071222... ; "SUBTITLE A SEEDY LOOKING GENTLEMAN..." So if you want to make a map by…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2016-12-03 · in Eaten by a Grue: podcast on Infocom games, text adventures and interactive fiction
  10. "The cyclops yawns and stares at the thing that woke him up." https://github.com/itafroma/zork-mdl/blob/be079a4ed234071222...
    comment by DonHopkins · 2016-12-03 · in Eaten by a Grue: podcast on Infocom games, text adventures and interactive fiction
  11. …in MDL which is available here: http://retro.co.za/adventure/zork-mdl/ It's also here on github: https://github.com/itafroma/zork-mdl It is fascinating to read, and really beautiful code, quite understandable even if you don't know MDL,…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2016-12-03 · in Eaten by a Grue: podcast on Infocom games, text adventures and interactive fiction
  12. …Somebody's put it up on github so it's easy to read (just 8 days ago, holy plate of shrimp!): https://github.com/itafroma/zork-mdl PS: It uses lots of GOTOs, but not the harmful kind!
    comment by DonHopkins · 2015-02-15 · in ELIZA from 1966