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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,rec.games.int-fiction,comp.unix.bsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!newsserver.hcc.com!news From: kennedy@ (John W Kennedy) Subject: Re: xyzzy Message-ID: <1995Sep21.193558.10925@hcc.com> Sender: news@hcc.com (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: kennedy.bridgewater.ne.hcc.com Reply-To: kennedy1@bwmail1.hcc.com (John W Kennedy) Organization: Hoechst Celanese X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 References: <43ld3a$2ka@ub.d.umn.edu> <43m79t$86k@crl4.crl.com> <43mi05$2h6@newsflash.concordia.ca> <43n91t$4nh@gap.cco.caltech.edu> <43njv6$s0e@crl5.crl.com> <badger.811556737@phylo.life.uiuc.edu> <43prg4$mmc@nova.avid.com> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 19:35:58 GMT Lines: 12 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.folklore.computers:88545 rec.games.int-fiction:7453 comp.unix.bsd.misc:239 In <43prg4$mmc@nova.avid.com>, david_lebling@avid.com (Dave Lebling) writes: >Zork was renamed Dungeon by the authors, and then re-renamed Zork. >The FORTRAN effort started during the (brief) period when the game was >called Dungeon, and the name stuck to that version. I never knew that. Since you're visible here, I suppose you know about ITF, ZIP, Inform, Curses, etc. Do any of your fellow Holy Implementors? Have you or they any reactions? And have you any news for us, the poor abandoned children of the One, True Infocom?