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A comment on Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games.

Re:Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infoc... by andrewstuart on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @07:03AM (#19672586)
This is the correct link, not the one on the HN post: https://github.com/historicalsource?tab=repositories

As a zipfile because someone is bound to get that repo taken down.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S1CgtZNEKS8VITqTAWAkeyO0LBf...

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Re:Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infoc... by localhostdotdev on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @10:56AM (#19674158)
not likely to be taken down as the CEO tweeted about it: https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1118057606159798274
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Re:Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infoc... by vanderZwan on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @12:42PM (#19675148)
I love how a tongue-in-cheek reply about the lack of syntax highlighting for ZIL files drew the attention of someone who actually implemented syntax highlighting for it.

https://twitter.com/taradinoc/status/1118181848494985216

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Re:Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infoc... by taradinoc on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @01:00PM (#19675308)
Who is that handsome mystery developer, where did he come from, and why can't we get enough of him?
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Re:Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infoc... by vanderZwan on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @03:42AM (#19680574)
We'll probably never know, it's a mystery for the ages.

Rumor has it that he owns http://zilf.io, but that appears to be unfounded

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Re:Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infoc... by int_19h on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @07:44PM (#19678348)
And now it's a PR. By a GitHub engineer even.

https://github.com/github/linguist/pull/4497

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Re:Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infoc... by dcreager on Friday April 19, 2019 @10:55AM (#19700110)
And now it's live on GitHub!

https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1118647837951004672

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Re:Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infoc... by WorldMaker on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @12:41PM (#19675137)
It's still possible for Activision/Blizzard to send a DMCA takedown, even if the GitHub CEO is excited about it.
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Re:Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infoc... by djsumdog on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @07:15AM (#19672659)
Yea, therer's no information on how it was obtained or the license, other than "not considered to be under an open license"

I wonder if this IP is currently owned by Activision/Blizzard

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Re:Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infoc... by dpezet on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @07:32AM (#19672730)
It looks like they might have added some things since you made your archive. The zip you posted is missing the following repos:

stationfall suspect suspended trinity wishbringer witness zork-german zork zork1 zork2 zork3

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Re:Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infoc... by speps on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @08:28AM (#19673034)
They are in the zip but GDrive cuts the listing of folders with "...".
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Re:Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infoc... by stoolpigeon on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @08:15AM (#19672952)
stationfall had a book released with it that I thought was hilarious at the time.
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Re:Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infoc... by fenomas on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @07:46AM (#19672806)
Regarding where these files came from:

> The source code was contributed anonymously and represents a snapshot of the Infocom development system at time of shutdown - there is no remaining way to compare it against any official version as of this writing, and so it should be considered canonical, but not necessarily the exact source code arrangement for production.

(From the "witness" readme, and presumably other repos)

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Re:Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infoc... by pmiller2 on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @03:09PM (#19676384)
Lack of provenance isn’t a barrier to filing a DMCA claim, unfortunately. Likewise, it isn’t really a basis for a counterclaim that I can see.
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Re:Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infoc... by janvdberg on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @08:37AM (#19673094)
Yes as submitted here an hour before :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19671865
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