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The original source code for Zork! There's also a port of Zork to the (amazing) programming language Inform 7: i7-dungeon.sourceforge.net/source.txt You can pretty much just read the source and understand the game.

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Jason Scott

@textfiles

· May 7, 2020

The 1977 source code for ZORK has been recovered from MIT tapes and released on github. I cloned the repository at github.com/historicalsour and the official MIT github set is at github.com/MITDDC/zork

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jared

@jrdprr

May 8, 2020

Inform really is such an incredible language. The whole space of interactive-fiction programming is fascinating. Wonder if you and

@andy_matuschak

had any thoughts on it's applicability to writing essays/didactic interactive texts?

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It's a fascinating language for so many reasons. Its authoring tools have some really unique features for e.g. ensuring that you see all the story paths. As to using IF-ish mechanisms for informational texts, I'm bearish—hard to write tight explanatory prose as DFA nodes.

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