A pal of mine has hooked up a text parser running Zork to a Twitter account.
http://www.agentdisco.com/z0rk.aspx
www.twitter.com/z0rk
It’s geeky fun. If you’re using Twitter and remember Zork, give it a whirl.
Thank you for this!! You’re my hero forever.
Or at least until someone else does something cooler. 
Seriously, though, I’ve wanted to play this game for at least 7 years, but never had a pc that it could run on. Your pal did a noble thing.
dosbox, which is freeware, allows you to run dos games that you legally own.
Really, Frank? That’s awesome! I never bought Zork, somehow I missed it the first time around, but I have Return to Zork, plus a crap-ton of other older games from when I had my first pc. Geez, between the Dope and old school games, I’ll never tear myself away from my laptop! Thanks for the info; you and Brainiac can share hero status, mmkay? 
No “Trinity” or “A Mind Forever Voyaging”, though.
I have the “Lost Treasures of Infocom” (both volumes) from back in the day.
Don’t use dosbox to play Zork. Infocom used a custom language which was machine independent and there are ports of the interpreter that are current and run just about every text adventure you’ll find. WinFrotz is the one I use for Infocom based games but Gargoyle is another popular choice. Either is a much better choice than going to the original executable.
Oh, and rigging Zork up to twitter is a very cool interpreter implementation.
That’s pure gold.
:takes egg: