This is a C++-20 port of the final 616-point Zork, written at MIT around 1978-1981. The goal was to do a port as directly as possible, meaning that the original logic, structures, functions, modules, etc. are ported as-is. Therefore, it is not necessarily the most "C++" way of doing things. The main exceptions to the MDL code are saving/restoring, which uses the Boost serialization libraries, and I/O, which uses C++ cin/cout. Restarting also needs platform-specific code to find the application's location. There is also no attempt to obfuscate or encrypt any of the text, rooms, puzzles, and so on. With the number of walkthroughs on the internet, it seems pointless to take such precautions.
The port has become more of a project for me to play around with new C++ features as they're added, so updates that are posted recently probably aren't fixing anything or changing any functionality. Hopefully they're not breaking things either...
A map of the 585-point version is here. It is missing three puzzles, but I could not find a more complete one. One additional modification: Use the "TERMINAL" command in Zork to simulate the feel of a 1970's-era terminal output.
Builds are supported for Linux (gcc-13 required), MacOS and Windows (32 and 64 bit, Visual Studio 2022 required). There is nothing using any non-standard C++ anywhere in the code, so it should be simple to port to other platforms. It also makes extensive use of C++-20 features, and thus a C++-20-compliant compiler is required.
Build requirements:
Boost (www.boost.org) - Requires the filesystem, serialization, and system libraries. This build used version 1.85.0, though earlier versions will probably work fine, within reason.
Presets have been added for Linux, Mac and Windows. Presets will be created in the "out" subdirectory. CMake Build Recipe (Tested in Ubuntu 22.04 w/ gcc 13.1.0).
The presets use Ninja for the build. Other build systems are untested, but would presumably work.