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Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games

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Re: Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games

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Post by djsumdog »

andrewstuart wrote: post #5

This is the correct link, not the one on the HN post: https://github.com/historicalsource?tab=repositories As a zipfile because someone is bound to get that repo taken down. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S1CgtZNEKS8VITqTAWAkeyO0LBf...

Yea, therer's no information on how it was obtained or the license, other than "not considered to be under an open license"

I wonder if this IP is currently owned by Activision/Blizzard

Re: Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games

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Post by jperry »

jacobush wrote: post #7
laurent123456 wrote: post #4

There is no existing compiler for all this programming language any more. Maybe someone will give it a try and create an interpreter.

There are plenty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine

Z-Machines aren't compilers, they're virtual machines that can execute the compiled output.

There's no (known) compiler that still exists that can compile ZIL into Z-code.

edit: except for zilf, as mentioned, but it's not functional for even zork 1.

Re: Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games

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Post by fsiefken »

jacobush wrote: post #7
laurent123456 wrote: post #4

There is no existing compiler for all this programming language any more. Maybe someone will give it a try and create an interpreter.

There are plenty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine

you mean interpreters, but this is about compilers of which there are only two: Zilch en ZILF.

Re: Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games

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Post by dpezet »

andrewstuart wrote: post #5

This is the correct link, not the one on the HN post: https://github.com/historicalsource?tab=repositories As a zipfile because someone is bound to get that repo taken down. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S1CgtZNEKS8VITqTAWAkeyO0LBf...

It looks like they might have added some things since you made your archive. The zip you posted is missing the following repos:

stationfall suspect suspended trinity wishbringer witness zork-german zork zork1 zork2 zork3

Re: Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games

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Post by pja »

willvarfar wrote: post #13

So, are these playable online over gh-pages? It would be so cool if the gh-pages contained an interpreter that loaded the source from github.

The compiler for these source files has been lost. You can play the zip files that were released commercially with Parchment, but because the copyright on those has not expired you wont be able to do so legally on the public internet I believe.

Re: Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games

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Post by fenomas »

andrewstuart wrote: post #5

This is the correct link, not the one on the HN post: https://github.com/historicalsource?tab=repositories As a zipfile because someone is bound to get that repo taken down. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S1CgtZNEKS8VITqTAWAkeyO0LBf...

Regarding where these files came from:

> The source code was contributed anonymously and represents a snapshot of the Infocom development system at time of shutdown - there is no remaining way to compare it against any official version as of this writing, and so it should be considered canonical, but not necessarily the exact source code arrangement for production.

(From the "witness" readme, and presumably other repos)

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