Dunnet (video game): Difference between revisions

'''''Dunnet''''' is a [[surrealism|surreal]], [[cyberpunk]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cultofmac.com/223455/there-is-a-surreal-cyberpunk-adventure-game-built-into-os-x-that-you-never-knew-about/|title=There Is A Surreal Cyberpunk Adventure Game Built Into OS X That You Never Knew About}}</ref> [[Text adventure games|text adventure]] written by [[Ron Schnell]], based on a game he wrote in 1982.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/Quogic/DunnetPredecessor/|title=Original 1982 Dunnet predecessor found in MIT archives|website=[[GitHub]]|date=8 April 2021}}</ref> The name is derived from the first three letters of ''dungeon'' and the last three letters of ''[[ARPANET]]''.{{Citation needed|date=March 2017}}. It was first written in [[Maclisp]] for the [[DECSYSTEM-20]], then [[porting|ported]] to [[Emacs Lisp]] in 1992.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/dunnet$20$20schnell/gnu.emacs.sources/8IkHKl5O2Xo/UhlGf9Y78UwJ |title=dunnet - text adventure for e-lisp |author=Ron Schnell |author-link=Ron Schnell |date=1992-07-28 }}</ref> Since 1994 the game has shipped with [[GNU Emacs]];<ref name=wpNoteworthyWpRs001_A>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J3UZAQAAIAAJ&q=dunnet+ |title=GNU Emacs Manual |date=1994 |page=314 |author=Richard M. Stallman |publisher=Free Software Foundation |isbn=9781882114047 |author-link=Richard M. Stallman |quote=<code>M-x dunnet</code> runs an adventure-style exploration game, which is a bigger sort of puzzle [compared to the other puzzle-games that ship with GNU Emacs].}}</ref> it also has been included with [[XEmacs]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.xemacs.org/Architecting-XEmacs/xemacs-tour.html |title=A Tour of XEmacs |author=Ben Wing |author-link= |date= <!--undated but sometime before June 2000 --> |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000619161448/http://www.xemacs.org/Architecting-XEmacs/xemacs-tour.html <!-- note well, the archive-page will appear to be blank, you will have to 'view source' aka Ctrl+u in most browsers nowadays, to see the contents of the website as of June 2000 and verify dunnet is mentioned --> |archive-date=2000-06-19 |access-date=2015-07-27 |quote= Most of the actual editor functionality is written in Lisp and is essentially an extension that sits on top of the XEmacs core. XEmacs can do very un-editorlike things; for example, try running XEmacs using the command <CODE>xemacs -batch -l dunnet</CODE>.}}</ref>