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Re:Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infoc... by bantunes on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @08:13AM (#19672944)
I think this has to do with the authors being more literary than tech savvy.
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Re:Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infoc... by pavlov on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @08:42AM (#19673126)
Infocom was famously tech savvy though. The founders came from MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) where they developed the first Zork adventure.
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Re:Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infoc... by anthk on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @09:37AM (#19682401)
The Z-machine is one of the technical marvels of the era. I doubt it. It was the Java of its day.
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Re:Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infoc... by icedchai on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @09:43AM (#19673488)
Nah, that's how I'd do it, too.
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