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Every plot, every puzzle, every personality has been honed and perfected to make your experience uniquely realistic and involving. The Zork saga is text adventuring at its finest. Welcome to the Underground. Your greatest challenge lies ahead – and downwards. The pack includes Zork I, Zork II, Zork III, Beyond Zork, Zork Zero, and Planetfall. Download Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom for Mac InfocomMasterpieces.zip (87.61 MiB / 91.87 MB) System 6.x - Mac OS 9 TOAST image / Zipped. Zork is an interactive fiction computer game. It was originally developed by four members of the MIT Dynamic Modelling Group—Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling–between 1977 and 1979 for the DEC PDP-10 mainframe computer. The four founded the company Infocom in 1979.
Some of these games had copy protection. Zork I, for example, limits your ability to copy the application from the disk, but imaging the entire disk worked. Zork II and Zork III, however, request that you insert the master copy (which I can't do on a Mac OS X machine, of course.) Most classic abandonware games can be downloaded somewhere. Zork Trilogy (Mac OS Classic). This game has a hidden developer message. Introducing a disk so packed with adventure, there's no room to save your.
Zork Trilogy |
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Developer: Infocom This game has a hidden developer message. |
Introducing a disk so packed with adventure, there's no room to save your progress.
So it's up to you to unleash the world's most powerful memory storage technology: a blank disk you purchased separately.
Developer Message
Infocom had had a rough couple of fiscal years. One particular shock was when the Bank of Boston, after a tech industry downturn, called in a $2 million loan.
And so, some vengeful wag scrawled on the bathroom wall 'Get Info' window of the Zork I application:
For a good time call the Bank of Boston |
This text can't be read while booted from the disk itself, which uses MiniFinder.
The Zork series | |
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Mac OS Classic | Zork Trilogy • Return to Zork |
DOS | Return to Zork |
PlayStation | Return to Zork |