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Tim Anderson (programmer)

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Tim Anderson is an American computer programmer who helped create the adventure game Zork,[1] one of the first works of interactive fiction and an early descendant of ADVENT (also known as Colossal Cave Adventure).[2] The first version of Zork was written between 1977 and 1979 in the MDL programming language on a DEC PDP-10 computer by Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling.[3] All four were members of the Dynamic Modeling Group at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.[4] After the success of Zork, Anderson and the other members of the team would go on to found Infocom.[5]

References

  1. ^ Woyke, Elizabeth (August 22, 2017). "The Enduring Legacy of Zork". MIT Technology Review.
  2. ^ "GDC 2014 - Zork Post-Mortem". Adventure Gamers. May 2, 2014.
  3. ^ Lammle, Rob (June 15, 2014). "A Brief History of Zork".
  4. ^ Anderson, Tim; Galley, Stu. "The History of Zork". Retrieved June 27, 2023.
  5. ^ Nooney, Laine (Fall 2017). "Let's Begin Again". American Journal of Play. 10.