In subsequent years there were many ports and adaptations made by hackers, mostly at university CS departments.
Best-known was
Infocom's
commercial release
Zork.
As a young hacker at the University of New Mexico, SmartMonsters' co-founder
Gary Smith
ported a pre-Infocom version from
MDL
to C, considerably enhancing the parser and the game world based on his observations of player behavior.
Our emulation follows the earliest versions we could find, C ports dated from the 1980s.
These have many differences from Infocom's commercial Zork series.
See our attempt at a
history
of Dungeon / Zork for details.
We plan to bring Gary's enhanced evolution online some time in 2021, perhaps fully-updated to the
far richer
TriadCity
platform.
Watch this space.