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Oh, apparently people like Zork a lot! Well, let me walk you through what the Internet Archive has lying about to make your Zork memories or soon-to-be-memories come alive.
Well, first, did you know I did a documentary on text adventures? getlamp.com
If you want to read much of the behind the scenes memos, discussions, company efforts and information about Infocom, I scanned thousands of pages from the notebooks of Steve Meretzky and you can browse them here: archive.org/details/infoco…
If you want to browse through a bunch of Infocom source code, go visit this github repository. Has a bunch of other games as well, both ones I helped recover and many others people have been quietly putting on github for years. github.com/historicalsour…
Did you want to PLAY Zork? Well, sure. How about playing it on an emulated black and white Macintosh off a hard drive with all the old Infocom games?
archive.org/details/Classi…
Oh, you're a text person, huh. How about Zork I playing off an emulated Apple II?
archive.org/details/a2woz_…
Oh, 40 columns not doing it for you, huh. Well, how about the MS-DOS version? That's in 80 columns. Blue background but what are you going to do. It's here: archive.org/details/msdos_…
Oh, you wanted to play some GRAPHICAL Zork? You heretic. Well, got you covered. RETURN TO ZORK is a 93 megabyte download but what is that these days, really. Want some rye? Course ya do. archive.org/details/msdos_…
And if you get lost? Well, don't worry, we have ALL the maps. archive.org/details/zork-i…
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