{"id":10470,"date":"2024-02-23T20:49:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T03:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10470"},"modified":"2024-08-31T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T20:43:11","slug":"source-code-for-infocom-games-and-the-zcode-interpreter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10470","title":{"rendered":"Source Code for Infocom games – including the Zcode interpreter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Infocom games were THE games to play in the late 70’s through the 80’s, featuring such classics as Zork, Planetfall, and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In 2019, Jason Scott posted<\/a> all the source code for Infocom’s text adventure games<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Infocom’s interpreter<\/em> source, however, remained obscure. ZIL (or Zork Implementation Language) wasn’t designed with a particular platform in mind but instead could be interpreted to work on a variety of systems using machine-dependent interpreters. The interpreters were well studied by enthusiasts who even made a modern Z-machine specification and an open-source IF interpreters<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That source was largely considered lost, despite Brian Moriarty donating the interpreter code for the TRS-80 Color Computer<\/a>. That is until a few weeks ago when someone said they had the code and posted the original interpreter source code<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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