Directory of Z-Machine Resources

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The Z-Machine is the format used by Infocom, and now compiled to by Inform, one of the three most popular platforms for development. You can get an interpreter for practically any system out there, and source is usually available. Please do not ask anyone for Infocom games to play with these interpreters, as these are still under copyright in the majority of the world.

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Resources in This Category

• Glk

  http://www.eblong.com/zarf/glk/index.html
  An I/O library used to make interpreters more portable. You need this if your interpreter says it requires Glk.

• Jzip Development

  http://jzip.sourceforge.net/
  Open Source Z-code interpreter for UNIX, DOS, OS/2, Atari ST and other machines.

• Malyon

  http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/emacs/malyon.el
  A Z-Machine interpreter for GNU Emacs. May be useful combined with the Emacs Inform major mode.

• Nitfol

  http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXinfocomXinterpretersXnitfol.html
  An interpreter intended for debugging. Includes auto-map feature, and debugging (cheat) verbs. Requires Glk for I/O.

• Viola

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/viola/
  An interpreter written in Python.

• Yahoo Groups: ZBurin-IF

  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZBurin-IF/
  A group for discussion of the upcoming ZBurin interactive fiction game playing system for the Cybiko handheld computer.

• ZBurin for Cybiko

  http://inging.iwarp.com/ZBurin/
  Preliminary screenshots of a z-code interpreter for the Cybiko.

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