31 Jan
2022
31 Jan
'22
11:45 p.m.
On Mon, 31 Jan 2022, Paul Winalski wrote:
On 1/30/22, Steve Nickolas <usotsuki(a)buric.co>
wrote:
There's also InfoTaskForce and JZIP, both of which I *think* work on *x,
but they are not as advanced as Frotz. JZIP comes closer, having been
Frotz's main competition for some time in the late 1990s.
-uso.
And I think I've heard the Infocom compilers' bytecode called
"Z-code" (I
use this term too).
That is correct. The Infocom games ran on an interpreter for an
abstract machine called the Z-machine. Z-code is the Z-machine's
instruction set. There is a freeware implementation out there called
Frotz.
-Paul W.
"Plugh" (said in a hollow voice)