The history of the game Zork is a long and winding one, starting with MUDs and kin on university mainframes – where students entertained themselves in between their studies – and ending…
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”.
So you may feel some kind of way about this. At the same time I wasn’t going to NOT post it. It’s interesting.
As @ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip said in the thread I cross posted this from:
So you may feel some kind of way about this. At the same time I wasn’t going to NOT post it. It’s interesting.