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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Zork</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../Z.html" title="Z"/><link rel="previous" href="zorch.html" title="zorch"/><link rel="next" href="zorkmid.html" title="zorkmid"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Zork</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="zorch.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Z</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="zorkmid.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Zork"/><dt xmlns="" id="Zork"><b>Zork</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/zork/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The second of the great early experiments in computer fantasy
gaming; see <a href="../A/ADVENT.html"><i class="glossterm">ADVENT</i></a>. Originally written on MIT-DM
during 1977-1979, later distributed with BSD Unix (as a patched, sourceless
RT-11 FORTRAN binary; see <a href="../R/retrocomputing.html"><i class="glossterm">retrocomputing</i></a>) and
commercialized as &#8216;The Zork Trilogy&#8217; by
<a href="../I/Infocom.html"><i class="glossterm">Infocom</i></a>. The FORTRAN source was later rewritten for
portability and released to Usenet under the name &#8220;<span class="quote">Dungeon</span>&#8221;.
Both FORTRAN &#8220;<span class="quote">Dungeon</span>&#8221; and translated C versions are available
at many FTP sites; the commercial Zork trilogy is available at <a href="http://www.ifarchive.org/" target="_top">http://www.ifarchive.org/</a>. See
also <a href="../G/grue.html"><i class="glossterm">grue</i></a>. You can play Zork via a <a href="http://www.forkexec.com/html/play-zork1.html" target="_top">Java
Applet</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="zorch.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Z.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="zorkmid.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">zorch </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> zorkmid</td></tr></table></div></body></html>