**ZORK**

This is the original version of ZORK is called DUNGEON and is written in the [[MDL]] programming language by members of the MIT Dynamic Modeling Group.  This is "Version MARCH 30" written in 1978 and is available under [[TOPS-20]] on the [[XKL TOAD-2]].  ZORK was later released as a commercial product in 1980.

**TO PLAY**


         Toad-2 at Living Computers: Museum + Labs, TOPS-20 Monitor 7(110131)-1
     
     
     Welcome to the Toad-2 System running TOPS-20 at Living Computers!
     @noaccount
     Password: unguessablewords
      Job 27 on TTY30 13-Apr-2020  7:12PM
      Previous LOGIN: 13-Apr-2020  5:40PM
      End of COMAND.CMD.1
     @zork
     
     The dungeon is available for exploring Monday thru Friday:
     
     	00:00 - 24:00
     
     It is also open weekends and holidays.
     
     Welcome to Dungeon.
     This version created March 30.
     You are in an open field west of a big white house, with a boarded
     front door.
     There is a small mailbox here.
     >open mailbox
     Opening the mailbox reveals a leaflet.
     >get leaflet
     Taken.
     >read leaflet
                             WELCOME TO DUNGEON
     
         DUNGEON is a game of adventure, danger, and low cunning.  In it
     you will explore some of the most amazing territory ever seen by
     mortal man. Hardened adventurers have run screaming from the terrors
     contained within!
     
         In DUNGEON the intrepid explorer delves into the forgotten
     secrets of a lost labyrinth deep in the bowels of the earth,
     searching for vast treasures long hidden from prying eyes, treasures
     guarded by fearsome monsters and diabolical traps!
     
         No PDP-10 should be without one!
     
         DUNGEON was created at the Programming Technology Division of the
     MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank,
     Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling.  It was inspired by the ADVENTURE
     game of Crowther and Woods, and Dungeons and Dragons, by Gygax and
     Arneson.  DUNGEON is written in MDL (alias MUDDLE).
     
         On-line information may be available using the HELP and INFO
     commands (most systems).
     
         Direct inquiries, comments, etc. by Net mail to DUNGEON@MIT-DMS.
     
           (c) Copyright 1978 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  
                            All rights reserved.