To my knowledge "Dungeon" was dropped out of fear that the people behind "Dungeons & Dragons" might claim a TM conflict.
Marco Peter Olafson schrieb: > > 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 calling it Zork, so the name stuck (not an unusual > course of events for software and other high-tech products with > entrenched 'working titles')." > > Hope this helps! > Peter > > Howard Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 were > released into > general circulation? Just wondered how 'collectible' the > book is, since Ive > never seen it. > > -- > ---------------------------------------------- > Howard Feldman, Author of The Search for Freedom > A Computer Fantasy Role-Playing Game > Visit its Homepage at > http://home.golden.net/~feldman/SearchForFreedom/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent to you because you are currently > subscribed to > the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi! th a subject of 'unsubscribe > swcollect' > Archives are available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
