#Z MACHINE INTERPRETER ANDROID DOWNLOAD#
From there you can download the games, and most of them work in Zoom or Frotz since they’re written in Z-code.
There are also many IF games that have been written by other people, and the best place to look for these is The Interactive Fiction Database, which is a searchable archive. Once you’ve done that, you’ll be able to open it in Zoom or Frotz and immediately start playing. Should you happen to download or buy one of these games, you’ll find that you need to rename the data file, whose name ends in DAT, so that it ends in Z8. You might also still be able to buy a compilation of the games that Activision released in the 1990s (Infocom was taken over by Activision in 1986, but it abandoned the Infocom trademark in the early 2000s). The interpreter itself is of no use without games, of course, but you can find the old Infocom games online very easily, although the legality may be slightly questionable. For Windows folk, Frotz is probably your best option, and there’s even a port of Frotz for the iPhone and iPad, so you can play your games while you’re out and about. If you’re using a Mac the gold standard is Zoom, which supports not only plain-text games but also adventure games with graphics. The key ones are, of course, open source.
#Z MACHINE INTERPRETER ANDROID MAC OS#
This, as it turns out, is very likely because there are Z-code interpreters for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and pretty well any platform that you’re likely to be using. That’s great news for us now, because it means that to play all of these old games, all you need do is implement a Z-code interpreter for your particular OS (or, perhaps more realistically, hope that someone else has already done so). Infocom took this virtual machine approach because there were so many different types of personal computer around at that time, so by writing a Z-code interpreter for each new platform the company could immediately make all its products available on that platform. The Z in Z-machine in fact stands for Zork, which was the company’s first famous adventure game.
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