Unearthing Infocom's Hidden Code-Porting Tools for Zork and More
The source code for Infocom's text-parsing adventure games, including Zork, has been discovered in a GitHub repository. The code, written in the Zork Implementation Language, was designed to be interpreted on various systems using the Z-Machine. While the source code doesn't contain many revealing comments, it provides insights into the challenges of developing commercial software in the 1980s. The owner of the repository is currently negotiating with Microsoft, the current rights-holder, to open-source Infocom's work.