Machine Z Interpreters Text Adventures Adventure

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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• Malyon - A Z-Machine interpreter for GNU Emacs. May be useful combined with the Emacs Inform major mode.
  
• Jzip Development - Open Source Z-code interpreter for UNIX, DOS, OS/2, Atari ST and other machines.
  
• Viola - An interpreter written in Python.
  
• Yahoo Groups: ZBurin-IF - A group for discussion of the upcoming ZBurin interactive fiction game playing system for the Cybiko handheld computer.
  
• Z9K - Z-code Interpreter for the Nokia Communicator.
  
• Glk - An I/O library used to make interpreters more portable. You need this if your interpreter says it requires Glk.
  
• Nitfol - An interpreter intended for debugging. Includes auto-map feature, and debugging (cheat) verbs. Requires Glk for I/O.
  
• ZipCE - A Z machine interpreter for Windows CE.
  
• Zoom - ZMachine for UNIX and XWindows or MS Windows.
  
• Gnusto - Z-machine interpreter for Mozilla
  
• ZBurin for Cybiko - Preliminary screenshots of a z-code interpreter for the Cybiko.
  
• Revenge of the Z-Machine - A z-machine interpreter in Java.
  
  

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