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Z-machine

The Z-machine is a virtual machine that was developed by Joel Berez and Marc Blank in 1979 and used by Infocom for its text adventure games. Infocom compiled game code to files containing Z-machine instructions (called story files or Z-code files) and could therefore port its text adventures to a new platform simply by writing a Z-machine implementation…

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ZorkPKZIP-compatible archive filesActivisionKBMDL
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Interpreters

InterpretersCP/MMS-DOSApple IITRS-80
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ZIL (Zork Implementation Language)

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Virtual machineMarc BlankInfocomText adventure games
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Bits
16
Design
CISC
Designer
Infocom
Endianness
Big
Introduced
1979
Open
Yes

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ZIL (Zork Implementation Language)

Interpreters

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Z-machine

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Triples122
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.032787
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Z-machine

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related to Interpreters · 30
Z-machine → According, Apple II, As, Binary, CP/M, Emacs, Frotz, Game Boy, Glk API, Infocom, Interpreters, Java, JavaScript, July, Mac OS, MS-DOS, Nelson, Nitfol, Palm OS, Popular
related to Before Z-machine · 25
Z-machine → Because, Berez, Blank, Colossal Cave Adventure, Computer Science, DEC PDP-10, Dynamic Modeling, Eventually, For, KB, Laboratory, LCS, Like Adventure, Lisp, Massachusetts Institute, MB, MDL, PDP-10, RAM, Technology
related to ZIL and ZIP, ZILCH and ZAP · 16
Z-machine → After Mediagenic, Although ZILCH, California, Computer Gaming World, Infocom, Infocom's, MDL, Those, To, Z-machine Assembler Program, ZAP, ZIL, ZIL Compiler Hack, ZILCH, ZILF, Zork Implementation Language
related to External links · 13
Z-machine → August, Fit, Infocom Internal Document, Infocom ZIL, Large Program Into, March, PDF, Small Machine, The Z-Machine, Wayback Machine, Z-Language Interpreter Program, ZIL, ZIP
related to Nomenclature and conventions · 13
Z-machine → Activision, Data, Infocom, Infocom's, Infocom-released, Later, PKZIP-compatible, The, Version, Versions, Z-machine Interpreter Program, ZIP, Zork
related to Graham Nelson and Inform · 8
Z-machine → Because, Demand, Graham Nelson, In May, Inform, Nelson, Though, ZIL
see also · 5
Z-machine → LucasArts, Made, SCUMM, Z-machine's, Z-machineTADS
Bits · 1
Z-machine → 16
Design · 1
Z-machine → CISC
Designer · 1
Z-machine → Infocom

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infocom files zil version zork games used adventure systems inform interpreters nelson mdl versions machine game story text code interpreter

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Z-machineBits161.00infobox
Z-machineDesignCISC1.00infobox
Z-machineDesignerInfocom1.00infobox
Z-machineEndiannessBig1.00infobox
Z-machineIntroduced19791.00infobox
Z-machineOpenYes1.00infobox
Z-machineVersion1.1 (2014)1.00infobox
Z-machineis avirtual machine that was developed by Joel Berez and Marc Blank in 1979 and used by Infocom for its text adventure games0.90text
the Apple IIinstance ofincluding 8-bit microcomputers from the 1980s0.80text
TRS-80instance ofincluding 8-bit microcomputers from the 1980s0.80text
and ZX Spectruminstance ofincluding 8-bit microcomputers from the 1980s0.80text
and groupinginstance ofincluding 8-bit microcomputers from the 1980s0.80text

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