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| From | Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: DEC Oral Histories |
| Date | 2026-03-09 17:13 -0400 |
| Organization | PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC |
| Message-ID | <mddh5qo4sfz.fsf@panix5.panix.com> (permalink) |
| References | <10ol48f$2s79k$1@dont-email.me> <qxqrR.125$K1h6.104@fx06.iad> |
Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
> The first thing I think of when I hear Bob Supnik's name is Adventure (which
> morphed into Zork). I finally got my hands on the FORTRAH source code and
> ported it to run on the mainframe I was working on at the time (Univac
> 90/30).
Adevnture is the Colossal Cave program (original by Will Crowther, fantasy
elements by Don woods). It was always in FORTRAN.
ZORK is the MIT Dynamic Modeling reaction to Adventure, written in a Lisp
dialect called MDL ("Modeling Dynamics Language").
Dungeon is what Bob called *his* port of ZORK to Fortran.
See which way the morphing went?
--
Rich Alderson news@alderson.users.panix.com
Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur,
omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus.
--Galen
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Re: DEC Oral Histories Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-03-09 02:47 +0000
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Re: DEC Oral Histories Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-03-09 23:07 +0000
Re: DEC Oral Histories Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2026-03-09 17:13 -0400
Re: DEC Oral Histories "George Cornelius" <cornelius@decuserve.org.invalid> - 2026-03-16 08:42 +0000
Re: DEC Oral Histories scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-03-16 15:04 +0000
Re: DEC Oral Histories Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2026-03-16 14:46 -0400
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