Z-machine
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z-machine-161-5685275
title:
Z-machine
text:
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 and could therefore port its text adventures to a new platform simply by writing a Z-machine implementation for that platform. With the large number of incompatible home computer systems in use at the time, this was an important advantage over using native code or developing a compiler fo
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Virtual machine for interactive fiction games
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine
date created:
2001-11-21T21:59:43Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T06:29:49Z
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