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The classic Zork text adventure games have been made open source by Microsoft. The original trilogy, consisting of Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III, is now fully available for play, exploration, and ...
Last week, Microsoft made the classic games Zork, Zork II, and Zork III available as open source under the MIT license. “Our goal is simple: to place historically important code in the hands of ...
Microsoft has officially opened the source code of the original Zork trilogy-Zork I, Zork II and Zork III-making the foundational text-adventure games freely available under the MIT licence. The ...
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The proliferation of digital game libraries and cloud streaming services has raised concerns about game preservation. Some publishers, such as EA, have stepped up in a big way by open sourcing older ...
Beware of Underground Trolls: Originally released for PDP 10 mainframe computers in 1977, Zork became a cultural and commercial phenomenon at the dawn of the home computing revolution. Now, Redmond is ...
Yesterday Microsoft announced it’s making the classic Zork games open-source, and apparently some folks have gotten a little excited about it. no need to fork zork when you can uncork zork straight ...
Microsoft, Team Xbox, and Activision have done an interesting service to game preservation this week. The trio have compiled and made open source the entirety of the classic Zork text-based adventure ...
Preservation has become a pressing topic for games in this era of digital-only releases and games-as-a-service. So it's wonderful to have a big win in archiving a trio of seminal text games for the ...