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From: magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson)
Subject: Re: The original zork
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 11:52:15 GMT
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In article <1993Jan12.103142.13406@athena.mit.edu> lin@athena.mit.edu (Albert Lin) writes:
>Does anyone know if the source for the original zork is available anywhere,
>and if so, where I can find it?  I'm thinking of the original UNIX version,
>the one that for a long time always appeared in /usr/games/zork.  

To pick a nit, this was *not* the original Zork. The original Zork was
written in MDL, and what you're referring to is a Fortran clone of it. 

>Are the sources/executables publicly available anymore?  Any pointers or help
>would be appreciated..

For a C translation of the sources, check out
if-archive/games/source/dungsrc.lzh at ftp.gmd.de.

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