{"id":1204454,"date":"2023-11-18T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1204454"},"modified":"2023-11-18T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T21:59:00","slug":"source-code-to-infocoms-text-adventure-interpreters-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1204454","title":{"rendered":"Source Code To Infocom's Text Adventure Interpreters Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slashdot reader Mononymous writes: Back in 2019, digital archivist Jason Scott released the source code to Infocom’s classic text adventures. Now the other piece of the puzzle is available: the source code (mostly in assembly, with some C and Pascal) to their microcomputer interpreters.<\/p>\n

Infocom, publisher of the best-selling Zork series, ported their text adventures to most of the diverse microcomputer platforms of the 1980s by using an early virtual machine, known as the Z-machine or ZIP. This enabled them to sell games simultaneously for everything from the TI-99\/4A to the Commodore 128. Hobbyists reverse-engineered the technology in the 1990s to create modern implementations, but now the original source code can be studied directly.<\/p>\n

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