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Z-Machine Standard 1.2 (draft) | Z-Machine Standards Document v1.1 | if-resources: Collection of Z-Machine standard document, consisting of Z-Machine Standard Document 1.0, Z-machine Common Save-File Format Standard (Quetzal) v1.3b, IF Resource Collection Format (Blorb) v1.1, and proposal for a Z-Machine Standard v1.1, in one PDF
Description of ZIP (the Z-Language Interpreter Program, as per an Infocom internal document)
Interpreters/VMs:
* Glulx – Similar to the Z-machine, but relieves several legacy limitations
* Inform – A computer language that can produce Z-machine programs
* SCUMM – Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion by LucasArts, a graphical system similar to Z-machine
* TADS – Like Glulx, made to address some of its limitations
* Motorola 68000 series – The base architecture used for virtual machines in Magnetic Scrolls' adventure games
ZILF: A set of tools for working with ZIL, including a compiler, assembler, disassembler, and game library. | ZILF Reference Guide
Zork Implementation Language Facebook group
A modern, highly optimised, open-source Z-machine implementation for the 6502 processor family. It is designed around a virtual memory model, where pages are retrieved on demand from an external storage resource, 512 KB in size, which must be preloaded with the game file.
Last modified 16 December 2024