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Re: Zork
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Thu, 7 Nov 2002 20:06:44 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Frank Filz writes:
> Zork and related games have been given a great lease on life due to
> Infocom's decision to implement a byte code virtual machine when they
> ported it to the TRS-80.
The original Zork also circulates. It's substantially identical to the
commercial versions, but fine details were edited, just as they were edited
between the early microcomputer editions and the definitive 1983 releases.
(bugs and all: 'who is george?') You can go back to the Zork I world from
the Zork 2 world in at least two ways (one is walking out the way you came
in). The Zork 3 world is referred to as the 'endgame'. One magic room can
send you to 4 rooms, one of which is the now-useless timber room of Zork 1,
another is the sacrificial knife scene of what became Enchanter ("Zork 4").
This obviously wound up on the cutting room floor for the commercial release
of Zork 1-3. It was really creepy finding a piece of what I thought of as
the all-new Zork 4 embedded way back in the original.
Another detail that made it in the 1983 version was the 'xyzzy' command (Fool!)
And it is just remotely possible to cast the 'Fudge' spell on the princess
in the commercial version.
-Erik
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| Thanks for the info guys. But not being one who usually gets into games and the like, Is zork a kind of game that some people put on their TI-83 calculators, or am I way off on that one? Hasta La Vista, Sean P.S About that xyzzy command, does fool (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) (URL) one weird looking URL, but go check it out...) Zork, while not the first text adventure game (Interactive Fiction as they call it these days), was one of the first to really implement an extensive parser. Here's another link: (URL) if (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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