zork ☆
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Description:
Dungeon modified from FORTRAN to C
Type: Formula  |  Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025
Links: Homepage  |  formulae.brew.sh
Category: Other
Tags: game text-adventure interactive-fiction retro dungeon
Install: brew install zork
About:
Zork is a classic text-based adventure game originally developed in the late 1970s. This version is a port of the FORTRAN source code to C, allowing it to be compiled and run on modern Unix-like systems. It provides a parser-based interactive fiction experience where players explore a vast underground complex.
Key Features:
  • Classic text-based interactive fiction gameplay
  • Ported from original FORTRAN to C for modern compatibility
  • Exploration of a vast underground dungeon with puzzles
  • Rich, descriptive text-based world building
Use Cases:
  • Playing a historically significant interactive fiction game
  • Exploring text-based adventure gaming on Unix systems
  • Nostalgia computing and retro gaming
Alternatives:
  • frotz – A Z-machine interpreter for playing Infocom games like Zork
  • nethack – A different genre of dungeon-crawling game with ASCII graphics
Version History
Detected Version Rev Change Commit
Sep 11, 2025 7:16pm 0 VERSION_BUMP f3cc619f
Nov 20, 2022 6:06pm 0 VERSION_BUMP 7bd69995
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