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Subject: Re: Adventure Games Sought
Message-ID: <409@goanna.oz>
Date: Fri, 18-Jul-86 06:15:04 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 18 06:15:04 1986
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References: <515@ur-tut.UUCP> <869@ucbcad.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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Summary: ZORK in HLL

In article <869@ucbcad.BERKELEY.EDU>, chapman@pavepaws.berkeley.edu (Brent Chapman) writes:
> In any case, most microcomputer adventure games (especially the earlier
> ones, such as the Scott Adams stuff, and ZORK and such) were written in
> assembler.
Not true!  ZORK originated at MIT, written in FORTRAN (I think).
The micro versions had an assembler core interpreter, but the actual
adventures were in a high-level-language, especially created for ZORK.

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