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Title: Microsoft Open-Sources Classic Text Adventure Zork Trilogy

Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/20/1942...

Microsoft has released the source code for Zork I, II, and III under the MIT
License through a collaboration with Team Xbox and Activision that involved
submitting pull requests to historical source repositories maintained by
digital archivist Jason Scott. Each repository now includes the original
source code and accompanying documentation. The games arrived on early home
computers in the 1980s as text-based adventures built on the Z-Machine, a
virtual machine that allowed the same story files to run across different
platforms. Infocom created the Z-Machine after discovering the original
mainframe version was too large for home computers. The team split the game
into three titles that all ran on the same underlying system. The code
release covers only the source files and does not include commercial
packaging or trademark rights. The games remain available commercially
through The Zork Anthology on Good Old Games and can be compiled locally
using ZILF, a modern Z-Machine interpreter.

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