zork

2 definitions found

zork - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Zork
  Dungeon
  
     <games> /zork/ The second of the great early experiments in
     computer fantasy gaming; see ADVENT.  Zork was originally
     written on MIT-DM during the late 1970s, later distributed
     with BSD Unix as a patched, sourceless RT-11 Fortran
     binary (see retrocomputing) and commercialised 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 from many FTP archives.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1998-09-21)
  

zork - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  Zork
   /zork/, n.
  
     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.