# z0rk: It's Zork. On Twitter! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 13, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/z0rk-its-zork-on-twitter/459797 "2008-08-13T01:10:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/z0rk-its-zork-on-twitter/459797/1 "2008-08-13T01:10:55Z")
A pal of mine has hooked up a text parser running Zork to a Twitter account. [http://www.agentdisco.com/z0rk.aspx](http://www.agentdisco.com/z0rk.aspx) [www.twitter.com/z0rk](http://www.twitter.com/z0rk) It’s geeky fun. If you’re using Twitter and remember Zork, give it a whirl. ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/z0rk-its-zork-on-twitter/459797/2 "2008-08-13T01:50:56Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/z0rk-its-zork-on-twitter/459797/3 "2008-08-13T01:54:08Z")
[QUOTE=freekalette] 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. [/QUOTE] dosbox, which is freeware, allows you to run dos games that you legally own. ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/z0rk-its-zork-on-twitter/459797/4 "2008-08-13T02:15:35Z")
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? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Apocalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Apocalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apocalypso)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/z0rk-its-zork-on-twitter/459797/5 "2008-08-13T03:47:37Z")
[http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/](http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/) ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/z0rk-its-zork-on-twitter/459797/6 "2008-08-13T11:35:10Z")
[QUOTE=Apocalypso] [http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/](http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/) [/QUOTE] No “Trinity” or “A Mind Forever Voyaging”, though. I have the “Lost Treasures of Infocom” (both volumes) from back in the day. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/z0rk-its-zork-on-twitter/459797/7 "2008-08-13T12:48:29Z")
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](http://www.inform-fiction.org/zmachine/windows.html) is the one I use for Infocom based games but [Gargoyle](http://ccxvii.net/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. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/z0rk-its-zork-on-twitter/459797/8 "2008-08-13T21:58:20Z")
That’s pure gold. :takes egg: