OTHOther · 1977 · Text adventure
Zork
Zork (Other, 1977) has an official source code release, MITDDC/zork, and 6 other public projects, including an open-source reimplementation. An agent environment already wraps it.
Data checked 2026-10-12 · unbaked registry
Projects
Source code for a 1977 version of Zork
MIT Libraries/DDC release of 1977 Zork source
The DUNGEON (Zork I) source
Wikipedia: open engine AND open game data; source released 1978 by/for Robert M. Supnik / Infocom. Public domain software ports with source code based on the first "Dungeon" version of Zork, are available in various repositories. Also, Inf…
Mainframe Version of Zork (Infocom)
Original Infocom source archived by historicalsource (2019); no license (Zork I-III relicensed MIT in Nov 2025, others not)
Original MDL source code for MIT's version of Zork
Original MDL source mirror
Original Fortran source code for Zork
Original Fortran Dungeon source
German-Language Translation of Zork (Unreleased) (Infocom)
Original Infocom source archived by historicalsource (2019); no license (Zork I-III relicensed MIT in Nov 2025, others not)
Portable Executable Zork; notes and code for interactive fiction authoring via Cosmopolitan Libc
development sporadic; status playable
What you need
Free game data is included with at least one project.
Agent environments
Same toolchain
More on Other
Found via en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_video_g, itafroma/zork-mdl, osgameclones.com/
GitHub data checked 2026-10-12. Notes are summaries from the research pass; the project pages are the authority.