You're not alone.
Text adventures were a favorite pasttime of me. Today however i hardly take
time to play one, and i have to admit that the graphics i see in nowadays
games are appealing. But still, it has something fun, and i'll try the
z-machine thing out!
Greetz,
Jacco
>From: Antoni Burguera Burguera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: MSX Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Z-Machine
>Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 20:59:38 +0200
>
>I have found an old implementation of the Z-machine for MSX. In fact,
>the program is called Z-machine in honour of the old adventure game
>"Zork", which was the first using it. So, the implementation I found is
>on the MSX version of the Zork games.
>
>Zork has 2 files: ZORK.COM and ZORK.DAT . Zork.com is the interpreter
>who tries to execute the zork.dat file. So, just put a Z-file on the
>same directory of ZORK.COM, rename the file to ZORK.DAT and... voila, it
>runs... sometimes.
>
>I think that ZORK.COM executes only Z-files version 3. Actual Inform
>compilations produce higher versions (6 or 7 I believe). Well, I will
>download .Z3 files of ftp.wustl.edu/doc/misc/if-archive and try them
>with MSX.
>
>Finally, a question... ¿there is somebody in the mailing list who loves
>text adventures? ¿Am I the only one? 8-)
>
>And... ¿there is some program like the spectrum PAWS? ¿Which language
>has been used to program MSX adventures like "Fahrenheit 451" or "Perry
>Mason"?
>
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