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From: bart@reed.UUCP (Massey)
Newsgroups: net.decus
Subject: Zork Again...
Message-ID: <474@reed.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 5-Feb-84 04:04:34 EST
Article-I.D.: reed.474
Posted: Sun Feb  5 04:04:34 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 06:13:50 EST
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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Sigh -- I have gotten a large number of highly interested replies to my
query about zork/dungeon -- someone requested that I post a summary of
what I've found out, so here goes --  The rumor is:

Infocom sells its version of the zork epic (i.e. ZORK I, ZORK II) for any
PDP-11 running RT-11...  Price unknown -- for popular micros the two halves
of dungeon are about $30 each...

The DECUS library will sell you the source for zork -- $44 for magtape, $100
for RX-01 disk -- probably the source will compile on RT-11, RSX, RSTS, or
VMS operating systems -- this is apparently DEC Fortran source code...

And finally, a NUMBER of people have versions of source or object for various
odd machines and or operating systems -- if you are one of these people, you
might post a note here, explaining what you have -- it might make someone 
else VERY happy...

Again, sorry I couldn't reply to each of you individually, but would SOMEONE
please tell me how to post mail over the net to a known pathname using plain
old 'mail'?!?...  I don't think I'm doing it right, and it sure is undocumented
here...

And if someone has source code for dungeon/zork in FORTRAN77 or some other
even more portable high-level language, maybe they could/should just post
it to net.sources?

Anyway, Happy Zorking...

		Befuddled but still trying,
			Bart Massey
			(...!tektronix!reed!bart)
			(Reed College, Portland OR)