[Simh] Don Daglow's Dungeon

Rich Alderson simh at alderson.users.panix.com
Tue Jan 3 19:01:35 EST 2012


> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:49:09 -0500
> From: Pierre Francesco <pierrefrancescoster at gmail.com>

> NOTE: This is NOT the prototype of Zork; this is an earlier game that bears
> the same name.

A correction:  The other DUNGEON is not "the prototype of Zork".  ZORK (also
known as MADADV) was originally written in MDL (a Lisp dialect) on the Dynamic
Modeling Lab PDP-10 at MIT.  The Fortran translation of that game, known as
Dungeon, was done by "an anonymous engineer at DEC" (reputedly someone we all
know on this mailing list).

                                                                Rich Alderson



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