‘Zork’ Source Code, Presumed Lost, Has Been Uploaded to GitHub

Note that the "Historical Source" repo has LOTS of stuff - most (all?) Infocom titles, Leisure Suit Larry, Deluxe Paint, Descent, Hexen, several MUDs, and tons of games I've never heard of. (Many of the non-Infocom titles are forks from other sources, so I guess it's more of a collected list, not a single huge source dump.)

There's even unfinished/unreleased source for an Infocom Hitchhiker's Guide sequel. Peeking inside:

    <OBJECT ZAPHOD
     (LOC RAMP)
     (DESC "Zaphod Beeblebrox")
     (TEXT "Zaphod looks completely normal, except for his two heads.")

Repo list: https://github.com/historicalsource?tab=repositories

Zaphod source: https://github.com/historicalsource/restaurant/blob/master/p...

In 1979 I was an ATE of Computer Magazine in charge of the Microsystems Section. Stanford and the rest of Silicon Valley were all playing Adventure. I heard about Zork and solicited an article from the authors, which was published in Computer Magazine. M. Blank, T. Anderson and P. Lebling, "Special Feature Zork: A Computerized Fantasy Simulation Game" in Computer, vol. 12, no. 04, pp. 51-59, 1979. doi: 10.1109/MC.1979.1658697 keywords: {null} url: https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.1979.1658697

This is from April and was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19672436

I stumbled onto a "ZIL Community" while browsing the comment threads when this news was posted last time.

https://vaporware.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ZC/pages/1998192...

My goodness, the obsession bordering on genius or madness - this language has some serious fans, after all these years since ZIL was created (~1979). And what's with the "vaporware" subdomain of Atlassian..?

It looks it might be one very hard-core ZIL enthusiast.

Here's his repo for ZILF, "a set of tools for working with ZIL (the Zork Implementation Language), including a ZIL compiler, ZAP assembler, and ZIL libraries for writing text adventure games."

https://bitbucket.org/jmcgrew/zilf/wiki/Home

Not just Zork, but also a bunch of other Infocom games such as Infidel and Bureaucracy.

There's even some Sierra game code for Leisure Suit Larry there, though not the whole game: https://github.com/historicalsource/leisuresuitlarry.

Here is the link to the repo itself. https://github.com/historicalsource/zork1

Lost? My buddy Tom has a copy...

I'm hoping someone uploads the source code for the Landmark game to Github.