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August 2026

Newest first.

Frotz
Mini-Zork I running in a window on the os8088 desktop, with a status line reading West of House and two typed commands in the transcript below it.

A new program

os8088 plays Infocom games now

A Z-machine interpreter in 23,722 bytes of 8086 assembly. The Z-machine is the pretend computer Infocom invented in 1979 so one game could be sold for every machine at once -- which is why a story file from 1982 is still a plain file that still runs. Mini-Zork, Colossal Cave Adventure, Zork: The Undiscovered Underground and Photopia all play, off a floppy of their own.

the interpreter
23,722 bytes
story formats
v1 to v8
games it fetches
15
Read it Video

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