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following is reply that I received when I was trying to track down
copy of ZORK (in the late 70s). At the time I already had numerous
copies of adventure in fortran and several enhanced versions written
in pli ... ref:

http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/98.html#56

 
> ZORK is a PDP-10 program written in MUDDLE, a LISP-derivative language
> for which no compiler exist outside the PDP-10.  It is friendly with
> the I.T.S. operating system and no other.  One Tim Anderson of the
> Lab for Computer Science is its proprietor.
>  
> Someone at DEC apparently took the MUDDLE source and
> transliterated it to FORTRAN.  I don't know how faithful
> the transliteration is.  It is supposed to b e  available through
> the DEC Users group association, DECUS.  A letter to them
> may turn up some information.
>  
> Beware.  ZORK is addictive.  Untold man-hours will disappear into
> its use, and some people will decide they want to analyze the game
> itself, which is said to require a man-month or so before solutions
> and algorithms become clear.
  
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