With a very interesting analysis of the topology too....
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Zork
The classic text adventure book - now online.
With a very interesting analysis of the topology too....
With a very interesting analysis of the topology too....
8 comments:
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The links don't work, Zoe... :-(
ReplyDeleteTry now - if you get a 403 error, just re-type the URL in.
ReplyDeleteIt's http://samizdat.cc/cyoa/ then press "play"
ReplyDeletei have missed this damn game so much over the years.
ReplyDeleteYou have made my week!
Uhm.
ReplyDeletei take it back. That isn't the Zork i know. The one i played was a computer game on the Commodore 64 (if memory serves).
That link seems to be a bad version of Choose Your Own Adventure...
Oh, you want the *digital* one, not the dead-tree version?
ReplyDeleteTry here.
Oh dear! So much of my earlier life was lost to that game! When I was dungeon master for it, I was systems programmer for an IBM 168 mainframe. Gawd big iron was impressive back then!
ReplyDeleteI spent so much time with Colossal Cave, as it was known then, that it was almost named as a co-respondent in my divorce!
Thanks Zoe! It has been too long since I have played that game. I fear another day of lost productivity is upon me!
Zork was fun to play. This got me to thinking and I recalled that I still have my orgional 5 1/4" floppy disk of it. So dug it out and here's a photo of it: http://twitpic.com/1721xd
ReplyDeleteStill have a couple 5 1/4" floppy drives laying around and old 486 pc laying around. So I could put together system with Win95 on it and run it in a dos box. But will have to check you the online version.