To my knowledge "Dungeon" was dropped out of fear that the people behind
"Dungeons & Dragons" might claim a TM conflict.
Marco
Peter Olafson schrieb:
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> While not entirely contradicting the source you suggest, this page
> suggests around origin, http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Zork
To my knowledge "Zork" was a word used by computer geeks at MIT for just
about everything, as in "give me that zork over there."
Its origins are lost in time; it may have been the book you mentioned,
but its not the only place the word "zork" was used. For example,
Mattel, I think, had toys named
While not entirely contradicting the source you suggest, this page suggests around origin, http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Zork
"Originally, 'Zork' was a name that any unfinished program around MIT got. When the game was finished the implementors called it Dungeon, but people went on ca
I don't know if it's true, but here's some info that may help.
"Hastily ..." was written by John Brunner, a well-regarded scienece fiction author, and published in 1974, Nice bio at http://members.aol.com/tishede/brunner.htm.
PeterHoward Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I seem to remember r
I seem to remember reading somewhere that Zork was named after a mid-70's poetry
book called 'A Hastily Thrown Together Bit of Zork'. Can't seem to find where I
read it with google. Does anyone know if this is true? Does anyone have the
book? Is it also true that only 150 copies of the book wer
