From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10516 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Saturday, January 14 2023 Volume 14 : Number 10516 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Public Notice: Permanent Water Shutdown ["Water Shutdown" Subject: Public Notice: Permanent Water Shutdown Public Notice: Permanent Water Shutdown http://folifatty.sbs/ZsB0a8QXVG25lzGPno69zHgqVXlYm_2ilpSq8UT2YcXx8vKJlg http://folifatty.sbs/CgaOMohs2PSfIrcGYnVy38iJCxWlWslQlGIO_Wp2d7vOLZsM y the end of June, the game was approximately half the size of the final Zork, and had a substantial community of players for the time. The group added locations such as a volcano and coal mine, and soon shifted their efforts to improving the game's engine and adding the ability to save the player's progress in the game. Following user requests, they also added the ability for the game to run on PDP-10 computers running different operating systemsbTENEX and TOPS-20bwhich were much more popular than the Incompatible Timesharing System operating system the MIT computer used. These users then set up a mailing list to distribute updates to the game. The developers returned to creating new content in the fall of 1977, adding the "Alice in Wonderland" section and a system for fighting enemies. Around this time, community member Ted Hess at DEC decoded the protections the group had made for the source code, and another DEC employee, Bob Supnik, created a port of the game to Fortran. This port, released in March 1978, opened the game to a wider set of players without access to a PDP-10 mainframe. At the time, the team had decided to give the game an actual name besides "zork", and chose Dungeon. This name was used for the Fortran version, which was spread through the DEC users group as one of its most po ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10516 ***********************************************