MS. GORF

Jamie Fenton gave a keynote speech at the 2001 Classic Gaming Expo where she showed footage of the game as it was being developed at the time in 1982 (photos #1 and #2).  The game was never finished due to the deteriorating market conditions at the time.  The game was being programmed using an early version of TERSE.  Fenton still has copies of the source code on 5" and 8" floppy disks.  From Jamie Fenton: "One of the issues with reviving Ms. GORF is that hardware configuration changed a few weeks before the project was cancelled.  We used a form of collision detection that depended on monitoring the write-cycle (if a certain value was written over another value, declare a collision).  There were other strange details that I can't remember."