Editing Teletype/DND1 (section)

==Development==
DND1 was a free-time project of Richard Garriott, inspired by [[wikipedia:Dungeons & Dragons|Dungeons & Dragons]]. He wrote it in 1977 while in high school. It was coded using BASIC, and most of it was written on punched tapes fed into the school's [[wikipedia:PDP 11|PDP-11]] computer, using a teletype as the output to print the game screen as it changed.

Two years later, Garriott's successor to this game (DND28) was ported to an Apple II computer as D&D28b, which added dungeons in 3D from a first person perspective and became his first commercial game, [[Ultima:Akalabeth|Akalabeth]].<ref>{{RefWeb | author=Maher, Jimmy | webSite=The Digital Antiquarium | webLink=http://www.filfre.net/ | pageName=Lord British | pageLink=http://www.filfre.net/2011/12/lord-british/ | date=2011-12-12 | accessDate=2013-05-15 }}</ref> 

In April of 2014, Portalarium ran a contest for community developers to port DND1<ref>[https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/?p=39149 Richard Garriott’s DND #1 Contest!]</ref>, offering prizes for the best Web and Unity version. The winners were announced in [[Update of the Avatar|Update 78]]<ref>[[Update of the Avatar]] [https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/?p=41386 #78 - Lord British's Royal Challenge</ref>. The [[Teletype]] was added to the [[Add-On Store]] during [[Release 22]], and was first playable in [[Release 23]].

The game features only black and white graphics and no sound. 

===Versions and Ports===
* The version available in {{SotA}} is itself a port of Richard Garriott's original code, written for the PDP 11 in 1977.
* The [http://www.kirith.com/DND1/pure-js/ Winner of Best Native Web Version] for Lord British's Royal Challenge was created by Mundi King.
* Scans of the original source code can be found [https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/dnd1.php here].