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From: aighb@castle.ed.ac.uk (Geoffrey Ballinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Zork! - a classic.
Message-ID: <10501@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 23 May 91 21:30:00 GMT
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In article <1991May23.122958.12672@doc.ic.ac.uk> alm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Alexander L McLintock) writes:
-Isn't Zork! copyright Infocomm?
-or has cdungeon got nothing to do with Zork!
-Alex MC

	The Dungeon game is the PD program from which Zork was created.
It is essentially a compacted version of Zorks 1 and 2. The game was
originally written (by the people who went on to form infocom) in Muddle
and since has been ported into Fortran and now to C,

						Geoff.

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 Geoff Ballinger,                           EMAIL: Geoff@Ed.Ac.Uk
 Department of Artificial Intelligence,
 University of Edinburgh, 80 South Bridge,
 Edinburgh, Scotland.