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‘Zork’ Source Code, Presumed Lost, Has Been Uploaded to GitHub

• dang 7y ago
  This is from April and was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19672436 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19672436
• TJTorola 7y ago
  Here is the link to the repo itself. https://github.com/historicalsource/zork1 https://github.com/historicalsource/zork1
• atombender 7y ago
  Not just Zork, but also a bunch of other Infocom games such as Infidel and Bureaucracy. There's even some Sierra game code for Leisure Suit Larry there, though not the whole game: https://github.com/historicalsource/leisuresuitlarry https://github.com/historicalsource/leisuresuitlarry.
• fenomas 7y ago
  Note that the "Historical Source" repo has LOTS of stuff - most (all?) Infocom titles, Leisure Suit Larry, Deluxe Paint, Descent, Hexen, several MUDs, and tons of games I've never heard of. (Many of the non-Infocom titles are forks from other sources, so I guess it's more of a collected list, not a single huge source dump.) There's even unfinished/unreleased source for an Infocom Hitchhiker's Guide sequel. Peeking inside: <OBJECT ZAPHOD (LOC RAMP) (DESC "Zaphod Beeblebrox") (TEXT "Zaphod looks completely normal, except for his two heads.") Repo list: https://github.com/historicalsource?tab=repositories https://github.com/historicalsource?tab=repositories Zaphod source: https://github.com/historicalsource/restaurant/blob/master/people.zil#L265-L268 https://github.com/historicalsource/restaurant/blob/master/p...
• JoeAltmaier 7y ago
  Lost? My buddy Tom has a copy...
  • AlEinstein 7y ago
    The source code for the game, rather than the game itself.
    • JoeAltmaier 7y ago
      Yup Oops - maybe its Adventure. I'll ask him this afternoon.
• drallison 7y ago
  In 1979 I was an ATE of Computer Magazine in charge of the Microsystems Section. Stanford and the rest of Silicon Valley were all playing Adventure. I heard about Zork and solicited an article from the authors, which was published in Computer Magazine. M. Blank, T. Anderson and P. Lebling, "Special Feature Zork: A Computerized Fantasy Simulation Game" in Computer, vol. 12, no. 04, pp. 51-59, 1979. doi: 10.1109/MC.1979.1658697 keywords: {null} url: https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.1979.1658697 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.1979.1658697
• Fjolsvith 7y ago
  I'm hoping someone uploads the source code for the Landmark game to Github.
• lioeters 7y ago
  I stumbled onto a "ZIL Community" while browsing the comment threads when this news was posted last time. https://vaporware.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ZC/pages/199819268/Getting+Started https://vaporware.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ZC/pages/1998192... My goodness, the obsession bordering on genius or madness - this language has some serious fans, after all these years since ZIL was created (~1979). And what's with the "vaporware" subdomain of Atlassian..? It looks it might be one very hard-core ZIL enthusiast. Here's his repo for ZILF, "a set of tools for working with ZIL (the Zork Implementation Language), including a ZIL compiler, ZAP assembler, and ZIL libraries for writing text adventure games." https://bitbucket.org/jmcgrew/zilf/wiki/Home https://bitbucket.org/jmcgrew/zilf/wiki/Home