[NBLUG/talk] Commodore nostalgia

[David Rosenstrauch]

Jordan Erickson wrote:
> Ah, Zork. Admittedly this game was one of my Summertime bordem killers 
> on the C=64, even though I had never figured out how to save games (had 
> to start from the beginning each time! Yack! Of course, I was 5 years 
> old...). Didn't matter though, killing the troll each time provided much 
> excitement. I remember a bug in the version I had, too..from the 
> beginning of the game, if you type 'run', it asked "What do you want to 
> run?" Reply 'me', and it jumped you to the cave. Weird!
> 
> This is just too cool: http://thcnet.net/zork/

Gotta love Zork!  I went digging for it a couple of years back and found 
that it's still available ... and runnable on *nix machines!   (See: 
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/)  So I built packages for it for my 
distro (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&K=zork&do_Search=Go). 
   The Zork1 package I made has 23 votes, so apparently there's some 
other old school geeks out there are enjoying it too!

DR