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Subject: Re: [TUHS] Gaming on early Unix
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On Fri, 6 Dec 2019, Gabriel Diaz wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Source code has been published of some early games.
>
> Were those games playable on Unix machines at the time? What was your favourite game?
>
> https://kryptonradio.com/2019/04/18/zork-source-code-presumed-lost-forever-has-been-uploaded-to-github/
>
> Gabi

I've been following this for several months.

I don't think there was a Z-machine for any Unix at that time.  Nowadays 
there's Frotz, I think there's also JZip and a bunch of others too, but 
I'm not sure even one as primitive as InfoTaskForce would run on V7 or 
earlier.

-uso.