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Marc Blank: The Programmer Behind Zork   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06) Blank's personal interest in adventure games goes back to when he was an undergraduate at the Massachusettes Institute of Technology in the mid-1970s. Marc Blank believes that one of the motivations for programming is to see if you can do something better than what's already been done. Blank had by this time finished his undergraduate studies and was attending medical school at Albert Einstein in New York. www.csd.uwo.ca /Infocom/Articles/blank.html   (864 words)

Infocom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Infocom was founded on June 22, 1979 by MIT staff and students led by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank, Al Vezza, and Joel Berez and lasted as an independent company until 1986 when it was bought by Activision. Inspired by Colossal Cave, Marc Blank and Dave Lebling created what was to become the first Infocom game, Zork, in 1977 at MIT 's Laboratory for Computer Science. Lebling and Blank each authored several more games and additional game writers (or "implementors") were hired, notably including Steve Meretzky. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Infocom   (1931 words)

Dublin Core/MARC/GILS Crosswalk For conversion of MARC 21 into Dublin Core, many fields may be mapped into a single Dublin Core element. In the Dublin Core to MARC mapping, two mappings are provided, one for unqualified Dublin Core elements and the other for qualified. MARC 21 fields are listed with field number, then two indicator values with field name/subfield name in parentheses. lcweb.loc.gov /marc/dccross.html   (1373 words)

[No title] MARC Record Structure: The data is formatted in a standard MARC record structure. MARC Field Definitions: Note: for the purposes of the following table, the subfield introducer code (Hex 1F) is shown as a dollar sign ($). If the MARC record grows larger than the preferred or exceptional record sizes, or larger than an internal server limit, the full text is truncated, and a 900 field is created with the message “Text Truncated”. support.epnet.com /CustSupport/UserDocumentation/cmed.doc   (946 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06) Marc Blank wrote the second version, and I maintained/hacked it; it was actually a legitimate test of a database system the group used for a research project. Marc Blank was enjoying a respite from medical school; I had just finished my master's degree; Bruce Daniels was getting bored with his Ph.D topic; and Dave Lebling was heartily sick of Morse Code. Marc, around this time, invented a new way of saving that cut the size down to something more reasonable, with the slight disadvantages that any new rooms or objects added to the old game would break existing save files, and that it never quite worked right anyway. www.ifarchive.org /if-archive/infocom/articles/NZT-Zorkhistory.txt   (6092 words)

2001-06: Accommodating Non-MARC Language Codes in Field 041 Use of multiple MARC language codes in all of the subfields in field 041 is accommodated by "stacking" them in their appropriate subfields. Because of the possibility of using different language code schemes in one record and the need for library systems to differentiate between these code schemes for processing purposes, it is proposed that field 041 be made repeatable to allow for different language code schemes to be coded in separate occurrences of the field. It was noted in the January MARC Advisory Committee discussion that unstacked codes in complex records may be more difficult to visually read, which may prevent catalogers from coding the field under complex situations (This would, of course, be partially dependent on the way a system presented the field for input). lcweb.loc.gov /marc/marbi/2001/2001-06.html   (1352 words)

Infocom Games in Brief Zork I by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling (Standard, 1980). Zork II by Dave Lebling and Marc Blank (Advanced, 1981). Zork III by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling (Advanced, 1982). infocom.gerf.org /Articles/NZT/brief.html   (569 words)

Infocom Authors - Marc Blank   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06) Marc Blank, born in 1954, was one of the authors of the original mainframe Zork in 1977, but before committing himself fully to the later founded Infocom, he followed his initial goal to become a doctor and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. When Infocom ended it became quiet around Marc on the commercial software market, until in 1993 he teamed up with Mike Berlyn to found Blank, Berlyn and Co, which was later renamed to Eidetic, their very own company. Marc left Sony in 2004, although he is still consulting for them. www.infocom-if.org /authors/blank.html   (535 words)

Re: Blank page without header (the problem with more explanation from Marc on 2004-01-14 (www-xsl-fo@w3.org from ... Thank you for answer, but my problem is about to use the blank page-master and not the normal page-master in the case of using the break-before attribute. The blank page is in the same flow and with the same master as the other and not the conditionnal blank one. Marc On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 18:30:48 +0100, you wrote: > >..... lists.w3.org /Archives/Public/www-xsl-fo/2004Jan/0010.html   (193 words)

MARC.pm : Machine Readable Cataloging Perl Module Many MARC records are typically concatenated in a file, typically separated by a unique binary separator. Leaders are the fixed-length preamble of MARC records defining structural information (position and length of fields, etc) and some information of bibliographic interest (enough to define format in the sense of BOOKS vs SERIALS). The clear intent for LOC's effort is that standard MARC records are mapped to an adequate (X/SG)ML file, which is then handled by (X/SG)ML technologies, which are available for all major languages and environments. marcpm.sourceforge.net /writings/marc_and_perl.html   (2029 words)

blank blank blank - what does it mean? I thought these blanks are when the screen reader gets to a cell in the layout table that only contains a spacer GIF with empty ALT text (ALT=""). But on listening to it again, the blanks do not match up with where these cells appear in the table. I don't think that the blanks are always caused by empty alt text/empty table cells. forums.devshed.com /t176155/s.html   (333 words)

MODS to MARC Mapping (Library of Congress) Since MARC 21 includes many more data elements than MODS, this mapping suggests a single MARC 21 equivalent for each MODS element, although there may be other equivalents. Since MODS data is not as granular as MARC 21 data and some MARC 21 subfields are concatenated into one MODS field, some data may map to inappropriate MARC 21 fields or subfields. The Leader is fixed in length at 24 character positions (00-23) and is the first field of a MARC 21 record. www.loc.gov /standards/mods/mods2marc-mapping.html   (1278 words)

XYZZYnews Issue #10 More Interviews With the Infocommies Marc Blank : I'm pleased that there is still interest in the Zork universe, and somewhat surprised whenever I hear people express continued delight with the old text-only games. Blank : I wouldn't go so far as to say that graphics will NEVER achieve that which is possible with text (or audio, for that matter), but I have no trouble saying that the recent efforts have not been notably successful. I remember Marc interviewing some guy (can't for the life of me remember who it was) in his trademark aloha shirt and jeans, but he reclined on a chaise lounge, wore his sunglasses and sipped a frothy drink replete with umbrella and straw. www.xyzzynews.com /xyzzy.10e.html   (2221 words)

HARRASSOWITZ - MARC records for monographs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06) MARC 21 bibliographic records for monographs and music scores HARRASSOWITZ supplies MARC 21 bibliographic records by FTP for loading into local cataloging or acquisitions systems. The tables on this page show the fields and subfields that are included in the bibliographic portion of the record (that is, all parts of the MARC record except the 9xx fields), with possible values. www.harrassowitz.de /elect_marc_records_bib_data.html   (396 words)

Interactive Fiction and the Future of the Novel FUTURE OF By Michael Berlyn and Marc Blank Marc Blank is vice-president of Infocom product development. If you've ever wondered what it would be like to be an adventurer-not just someone you read about, but someone you can truly become-there are worlds waiting to unfold their mysteries. www.atariarchives.org /deli/interactive_fiction.php   (2493 words)

Rap Sheet - Person : Marc Blank Marc Blank was credited on a game as early as 1980 and as recently as 2001. Marc Blank has been credited with the roles Design, Programming, Production, Other and Support. Marc Blank has been credited on games developed by the following companies: Infocom, Eidetic, Inc. and Konami Corporation. www.mobygames.com /developer/sheet/view/developerId,199   (160 words)

Infocom Authors Marc Blank was heading toward a career as a medical doctor when he fell into the Infocom crowd. Blank says after the team had finished the Zorks they were deciding what to do next and he didn't want to do another fantasy game. Blank does believe that their company is a reincarnation of Infocom. infocom.gerf.org /authors.html   (3794 words)

Interview: Dave Lebling - Adventure Collective - Game Reviews, Previews, Features, Editorials, Interviews, Articles, ... I had also worked with Marc Blank and Tim Anderson on a Trivia game which had a database of thousands of questions submitted from all over the old Arpanet. When Marc Blank and Joel Berez designed the Z-machine, they therefore had a lot of knowledge of how to do it more cleanly (from a language point of view) and came up with a really elegant, simple, machine. Ultimately Joel Berez left (Marc Blank and Al Vezza were long since gone) and was replaced by Joe Ybarra, who they appointed as President (or was it general manager?). www.adventurecollective.com /interviews/interview-davelebling.htm   (3863 words)

Blank page without header from Marc on 2004-01-13 (www-xsl-fo@w3.org from January 2004) Blank page without header from Marc on 2004-01-13 (www-xsl-fo@w3.org from January 2004) I introduce an empty block with the break-before attribute ------ --------- and in the page-sequence-master I introduce the blank concept ---------------------- -------------------- the odd and even page have static-content to define header. A the end in the result (XEP engine) I have a blank page, but with the odd header. lists.w3.org /Archives/Public/www-xsl-fo/2004Jan/0006.html   (221 words)

MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data: Field List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06) This document lists all valid and obsolete data elements that may appear in MARC 21 bibliographic records. It is intended to meet the need for a simple data element list to support MARC system development and online validation of MARC data elements. Descriptions and examples can be found in the MARC 21 Concise Bibliographic Format. www.cs.waikato.ac.nz /~jrm21/marc/ecbdlist.html   (3724 words)

ThePodcastNetwork :: The TabletPC Show   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06) Marc and I do our best to embarrass Josh with gushing praise for the program that both of us use daily and Josh gives us insights into his development of the next version of TEO, version 3.0, and shares some of the upcoming goodies he is adding to an already solid program. Marc Orchant is traveling this week and couldn’t do the show with me but have no fear he will be back soon. Marc is an outspoken supporter of the Tablet PC and will be a most welcome addition to the show. www.thepodcastnetwork.com /tabletpc/feed   (6990 words)

[No title] In association with Activision, ex-Infocom implementors Marc Blank and Mike Berlyn have released a brand spanking new piece of text-based interactive fiction using the Inform engine. We forgot about it until Marc Blank called to see how ZGI was going. Here I am demoing ZGI and Marc walks up says, "Hi, I'm Marc Blank." When I told the people I was demoing the game who he was, they were excited too. ibiblio.org /pub/docs/interactive-fiction/magazines/IFN/IFN-0001.txt   (3948 words)

Infocom Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06) Infocom founded by 10 DM Group members (Tim Anderson, Joel Berez, Marc Blank, Mike Broos, Scott Cutler, Stu Galley, Dave Lebling, J. Licklider, Chris Reeve, Al Vezza). Marc Blank becomes vice-president (VP) for product development. Marc Blank meets Mike Berlyn at an Applefest trade show. www.csd.uwo.ca /~pete/Infocom/Articles/timeline.html   (511 words)

2002-DP06: Repertoire Expansion in the Universal Character Set for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics The use of UCS/Unicode in MARC 21 records as an alternative character set encoding to the MARC-8 set was approved in June 1998 following the work of the MARBI Unicode Encoding and Recognition Technical Issues Task Force presented in Proposal 98-18 (Unicode Identification and Encoding in MARC records). One of the working principles of the Character Set Subcommittee stated in Proposal 97-10 is that round-trip mapping would be provided between the MARC-8 set and the accepted repertoire in UCS. There is no suggestion to expand the repertoire of MARC records that are not in Unicode. www.loc.gov /marc/marbi/2002/2002-dp06.html   (1483 words)

Enchanter by Mark Blank, 1983 Author Info: Marc Blank is the greatest video game designer to have ever walked the earth. Blank knew the kind of person that would pick up Enchanter and didn't ignore him or her -- oh dear, I am overcome with a simply devastating bit of coughing due to that last line! The writing is excellent and, unlike most of Blank's games, that statement does not need a "considering the space limitations" clarifier. www.joltcountry.com /trottingkrips/enchanter.html   (1485 words)

List of MARC Tags   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06) This is a list of the most common MARC fields, including applicable codes for the fixed fields and indicator values for the variable fields. The Guide to MARC Fields gives brief explanations of the content and usage of the basic MARC fields. The Guide to MARC Subfields and Punctuation explains the subfields for each MARC field, with instructions on how to enter data and punctuation. www.lib.auburn.edu /catalog/docs/marctaglist.html   (601 words)

[No title] In the mid-1970s, Infocom's eventual braintrust (Marc Blank, Joel Berez and Dave Lebling) met at M.I.T.'s Laboratory of Computer Science. So, Marc Blank applied his artificial intelligence work and created ZIL (Zork Interactive Language), a "parser" which allowed the program to find associations between sentences and, hence, better understand what the player wanted to do. Yet, Blank, Berez and Vezza had a hidden agenda that was already beginning to foreshadow changes at the company. www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/interactive-fiction/infocom/articles/GamingWorld91.txt   (1040 words)

The History of Zork   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06) All changes were credited to some group of implementers, but not necessarily to those actually responsible: one of the issues describe Bruce working for weeks to fill in all the bottomless pits in the dungeon, thus forcing packs of grues to roam around. Marc added a clock daemon, which processed a queue of events that would happen some fixed number of moves later. When Zork was added to the list of possibilities, Joel and Marc worked intensively during the summer and autumn creating the programming tools for their design. fellow-traveler.com /misc/zorkhist.html   (6333 words)

Technical Note: How MARC 21 Updates 2 and 3 Affect the RLG Union Catalog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06) Certain elements in the MARC updates will not be implemented until RLG launches its new technical services client. Complete MARC 21 coding for textual integrating resources requires both BLT/02 "i" and a Serials 008 field. In addition, RLIN MARC Record: Description and Intepretation and RLIN Indexes and Fields Indexed reflect the MARC 21 updates. www.rlg.org /marcupdate02.html   (1044 words)

G'day World Podcast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06) Marc talks to us about how he went from writing for Office Zealot... Marc is the blogger behind some of the best blogs on the topics of Office (at Office Zealot and Weblogs Inc), personal productivity and TabletPC’s. We also added a piece to the end of the original interview which we recorded a week after the initial interview and we talk about Marc’s involvement in The More Space Project. feeds.feedburner.com /GdayWorldPodcast   (2525 words)

Control Fields (001-006) Fields 001-006 contain control numbers and other control and coded information that are used in processing MARC bibliographic records. The MARC code for the organization is contained in field 003 (Control Number Identifier). The MARC code for the organization whose control number is contained in field 001 (Control Number). www.loc.gov /marc/bibliographic/ecbdcntr.html   (1254 words)

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