Microsoft Open Sources Zork I, II And III

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• Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I didn’t even know Microsoft owned Zork lol

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  • dhork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a maze of twisty passages that gets there…

    Infocom was bought by Activision, which later got merged into Activision Blizzard, which Microsoft later bought.

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    • ricdeh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And apparently Microsoft originally wanted to buy the rights all the way back in the 80s! It only took them 40 years…

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• justlemmyin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But… Why? I don’t trust them, what do they want?

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  • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As the readme states, you can’t actually compile the source code. The compilers are lost to time and it’s from a very obscure, proprietary fork of an obscure language. Essentially, this headline should read “Microsoft owns code not even their engineers could comprehend, so they released it for free since they couldn’t possibly make money from it”.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To be fair, Zork is also just a simple text-based adventure game. I’m not even sure what could be learned by looking at its source code unless you wanted to learn that obscure, proprietary forked language itself. Text-based adventures are little more than spicy Hello World programs. 🤷‍♂️

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    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sure, though interpreters have already been written for the bytecode language that this source code compiles to. It shouldn’t be too difficult for the community to write a compiler when the back-end interpreter is already there and usable for testing.

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  • Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is very dark, you are likely to be eaten by a grue. Or profiled by Microsoft.

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• monotremata@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nigRT2KmCE

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• Kowowow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why is everything named so weird

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  • qfe0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t know Kowowow.

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    • Kowowow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ok I misread something I thought it was another linux program or whatever

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