DND (video game)
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| DND | |
|---|---|
| Developer | Daniel M. Lawrence |
| Platform | PDP-10 |
| Release | 1977 |
| Genre | Role-playing video game |
DND is a role-playing video game developed by Purdue University student Daniel Lawrence in 1977 for the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-10 mainframe computer. The name DND is derived from the abbreviation "D&D" from the original tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. It was later ported to several other computer systems and languages. After Lawrence re-used code from the game in the 1982 role-playing game Telengard, DEC ordered DND be removed from their computers to avoid litigation by Telengard's publisher. DND was one of the earliest role-playing video games, as part of a set of games developed in the 1970s based on the 1974 Dungeons & Dragons.
DND was written in BASIC for the TOPS-10 time-share operating system by Daniel Lawrence, a student at Purdue University, for the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-10 mainframe computer and released around 1977.[1][2][3] It was one of several freeware games based on Dungeons & Dragons in the 1970s.[3] Later the game found its way to DEC and was there rewritten in 1983 to Pascal.[4][5]