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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!crl5.crl.com!not-for-mail From: jawells@crl.com (Jason A. Wells) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,rec.games.int-fiction,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: xyzzy Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers,rec.games.int-fiction,comp.unix.bsd.misc Date: 19 Sep 1995 16:32:54 -0700 Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest] Lines: 40 Message-ID: <43njv6$s0e@crl5.crl.com> References: <43ld3a$2ka@ub.d.umn.edu> <43m79t$86k@crl4.crl.com> <43mi05$2h6@newsflash.concordia.ca> <43n91t$4nh@gap.cco.caltech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: crl5.crl.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.folklore.computers:88334 rec.games.int-fiction:7411 comp.unix.bsd.misc:231 Tim Shoppa (shoppa@altair.krl.caltech.edu) wrote: : In article <43mi05$2h6@newsflash.concordia.ca>, : Joachim Thiemann <joachim@ece.concordia.ca> wrote: : >Jason A. Wells (jawells@crl.com) proclaimed to us: : >: Christopher G Busch (cbusch@ub.d.umn.edu) wrote: : > [ Snip. ] : >AFAIK, most BSD-ish systems (and NetBSD for sure) still have adventure : >as part of their games distribution. Check ftp://ftp.netbsd.org or one : >of the mirrors.. : My memory's hazy, but didn't the non-PDP-11 distributions of BSD : once come with a PDP-11 emulator of sorts whose only purpose in life : was to run a binary executable of Dungeon? (Dungeon later got pared : back, split up, and came out as the Zork trilogy for micros.) : Was the full Dungeon source code (in Fortran) ever made publicly available? : Maybe it's at one of the if-archive sites? I've got the source to a : version that runs under RT-11 and RSX-11 Fortran IV, but it seems to : only include roughly what came in the first Zork. To my knowledge, when Zork was first released, Infocom boasted that their command handling, complex puzzles, and such could not be handled in FORTRAN. Which caused DECUS (DEC Users Society) develop Dungeon to prove Infocom wrong. DECUS apparently did a nice job (never played it, myself) however Dungeon is said to fall short in its command handling. The source is available in FORTRAN (Don't know which version/flavor) on ftp.gmd.de in the /if-archive/games/sources directory (I think). The previously stated is /not/ an intentional troll. I may be (and probably am) wrong. This is all just from what I've heard, I'll check out an if-archive site and find out. : Tim. (shoppa@altair.krl.caltech.edu) Jason. (jawells@crl.com)