The second of the great early experiments in computer fantasy gaming;
see {ADVENT}. Originally written on MIT-DM during 1977-1979, later
distributed with BSD Unix (as a patched, sourceless RT-11 FORTRAN
binary; see {retrocomputing}) and commercialized as `The Zork
Trilogy' by {Infocom}. The FORTRAN source was later rewritten for
portability and released to Usenet under the name "Dungeon". Both
FORTRAN "Dungeon" and translated C versions are available at many FTP
sites; the commercial Zork trilogy is available at
http://www.ifarchive.org/. See also {grue}. You can play Zork via a
Java Applet.
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