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Different versions of original mainframe Zork reconstructed and patched to run under Confusion.
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791211/810722: Typo on line 396 in dung.mud #20

Closed heasm66 closed 5 months ago

heasm66 commented 4 years ago

"fovnder" should be "founder".

eriktorbjorn commented 1 year ago

The Fortran version makes the same change, but I can't help wondering if it was deliberate. There was a time when the letter V was used instead of U. See https://www.dictionary.com/e/theletteru/ for some information about this. I also found this example in the Statue of John Carroll Wikipedia article:

fovnder

Another example, closer to home, would be Dave Lebling's "The Lurking Horror":

>WEST
You enter the freezing, biting cold of the blizzard.

Mass. Ave.
This is the main entrance to the campus buildings. Blinding snow obscures the
stately Grecian columns and rounded dome to the east. You can barely make out
the inscription on the pediment (which reads "George Vnderwood Edwards, Fovnder;
P. David Lebling, Architect; Russell Lieblich, Sound Engineer"). West across
Massachusetts Avenue are other buildings, but you can't see them.
larsbrinkhoff commented 1 year ago

I share @eriktorbjorn's reservations about this.

larsbrinkhoff commented 1 year ago

Maybe consider that U and V are not close on a keyboard, and typed with different hands (if touch typing).

heasm66 commented 1 year ago

Valid comment. I'll reopen this issue and change it back.

gmenounos commented 11 months ago

Pretty sure "fovnder" was intentional: image