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Microsoft makes Zork open-source

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Re: Microsoft makes Zork open-source

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Post by nebula8804 »

jsheard wrote: post #30
ayaros wrote: post #24

This is great, but I'd rather they make Windows 11 open-source instead.

Funnily enough you can easily find the Windows XP source code on GitHub. Not endorsed by Microsoft of course, but they've ignored it sitting on their own service for years, along with ignoring all the modern Windows and Office piracy tools which are also on GitHub. Microsoft works in mysterious ways.

If AGI ever comes close to fruition I can't wait to just dump this code into some AI, tell it to fix all security bugs and make it work on M Series processors. Would finally achieve a computing environment that would be perfect for me. Until then, I will continue to dream.

Re: Microsoft makes Zork open-source

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Post by Night_Thastus »

nebula8804 wrote: post #61
jsheard wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funnily enough you can easily find the Windows XP source code on GitHub. Not endorsed by Microsoft of course, but they've ignored it sitting on their own service for years, along with ignoring all the modern Windows and Office piracy tools which are also on GitHub. Microsoft works in mysterious ways.

If AGI ever comes close to fruition I can't wait to just dump this code into some AI, tell it to fix all security bugs and make it work on M Series processors. Would finally achieve a computing environment that would be perfect for me. Until then, I will continue to dream.

If we ever get to the point of having a tool that could do something that complex, we're well past the point of using human-written operating systems or using M-series processors.

Which is to say, very, very, very far away.

Re: Microsoft makes Zork open-source

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Post by pavlov »

nebula8804 wrote: post #61
jsheard wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funnily enough you can easily find the Windows XP source code on GitHub. Not endorsed by Microsoft of course, but they've ignored it sitting on their own service for years, along with ignoring all the modern Windows and Office piracy tools which are also on GitHub. Microsoft works in mysterious ways.

If AGI ever comes close to fruition I can't wait to just dump this code into some AI, tell it to fix all security bugs and make it work on M Series processors. Would finally achieve a computing environment that would be perfect for me. Until then, I will continue to dream.

Why not use AI to make ReactOS better? Is there something in original Windows XP that ReactOS doesn’t want to implement?

Re: Microsoft makes Zork open-source

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Post by entropicdrifter »

randall wrote: post #63
seritools wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Infocom was bought by Activision, ActivisionBlizzard was bought by Microsoft.

whoa til microsoft owns blizzard.

You're one of today's lucky 10,000. It was huge news at the time. The FTC considered not allowing it and the acquisition got delayed for months while back and forth public debate raged.

Re: Microsoft makes Zork open-source

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Post by SoKamil »

lloydatkinson wrote: post #51

I wonder how long before someone hooks up AI image generation for the scenes with this. It could either be very tastefully done or complete slop. Probably the second option.

> It could either be very tastefully done or complete slop.

It really depends on the creator. A slop is a side effect of the fact that the entry barrier has been much lowered. Previously you at least had to put some effort into learning the craft before showing that to the world.

Re: Microsoft makes Zork open-source

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Post by drob518 »

agiacalone wrote: post #20
katspaugh wrote: post #14

So Zork was written in Lisp? It had to be! --- >

MDL, actually, which was derived from LISP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDL_(programming_language)

I’m curious why they chose MDL rather than Lisp for it. Sure, it would have been ancient MACLISP or whatever, but why not leverage what was already in wide use at MIT at the time?
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