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Subject: ZIL (Zork Implementation(?) Language) interpreter
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Date: Wed, 3-Jun-87 17:17:17 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  3 17:17:17 1987
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I'm looking for a ZIL interpreter that will run under System V UNIX.
I have purchased some Infocom software to run on an AT under DOS, and I'm
sick and tired of having to bring up DOS every time I want to play them
(that's all that DOS is useful for...:-) ) -- Has anyone out there tried
to make a ZIL interpreter in C?  After some carefull digging (I bought
Zork I years and years ago for CP/M) I found out that the .DAT files follow
a common format -- think of it as I-code (or Z-code?) -- something like the
UCSD P-code of ages past.

Anyway, I'd like to get (or build if I can get hints) an intepreter so that
I can run the games on the unix side of the machine.

If any of you wonderful tykes from Infocom read this, kindly forward it to
your legal department so they can begin proceedings against me (Yes, I've
been playing Bureaucracy).
					... a troubled soul

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{ucbvax|sdcsvax|pyramid}!ucsbcsl!nessus!paul			 Paul S. Traina
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