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Re: DEC Oral Histories

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"George Cornelius" <cornelius@decuserve.org.invalid> writes:
>Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>
>Thanks for the clarification, Rich.
>
>I still have my username/password for Paul Allen's xkleten, where I would
>run the original version. Thanks for your work in making that available to
>us - too bad it's gone.
>
>I spent lots of hours on Dungeon under RSX-11M, some in the twisty
>little passages all alike.

While I also played Dungeon (and Zork) back in the late 70s,
my favorite MUD was the Plato DnD application.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnd_(1975_video_game)

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DEC Oral Histories Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-03-09 00:29 +0000
  Re: DEC Oral Histories Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-03-09 02:47 +0000
    Re: DEC Oral Histories "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-03-09 19:28 +0000
      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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