The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 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.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
Zork
Dungeon
/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)