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heasm66 / mdlzork

Different versions of original mainframe Zork reconstructed and patched to run under Confusion.
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Revert back from "a lunch" to "a .lunch" for 77 & 78 #22

Closed heasm66 closed 1 year ago

heasm66 commented 3 years ago

This explanation from Tim Anderson:

In MIDAS (the assembler used on ITS), the mnemonics for the system calls (UUOs, actually) all started with “.”: .OPEN, etc. .LUNCH? might be taken as a combination of assembly language and Muddle, since Muddle’s predicates all ended with ? (vs. LISP, where they ended with “p”). It meant, “time to get lunch?” -ta