Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games
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Re: Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games
#2Announcement: https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1118005126457888768
Re: Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games
#3Alas no Trinity - the greatest IF game of all time.
Re: Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games
#4There is no existing compiler for all this programming language any more. Maybe someone will give it a try and create an interpreter.
Re: Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games
#5This is the correct link, not the one on the HN post: https://github.com/historicalsource?tab=repositories
As a zipfile because someone is bound to get that repo taken down.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S1CgtZNEKS8VITqTAWAkeyO0LBf...
Re: Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games
#6Alas no Trinity - the greatest IF game of all time.
Er, Trinity is there: https://github.com/historicalsource/trinity
Re: Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games
#7There is no existing compiler for all this programming language any more. Maybe someone will give it a try and create an interpreter.
There are plenty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine
Re: Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games
#8https://bitbucket.org/jmcgrew/zilf/wiki/Home could zilf compile it? (i am not familiar with this language at all...)
Re: Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games
#9There is no existing compiler for all this programming language any more. Maybe someone will give it a try and create an interpreter.
A commenter on Zarf's blog ( https://blog.zarfhome.com/2019/04/all-of-infocoms-game-sourc... ) reports that ZILF is capable of at least building the Zork source to something that will start up, though given the warnings produced during compilation it's not going to work perfectly...