#zil — Public Fediverse posts

Time to figure out those ZIL grammar flags that Steve Meretzky said were confusing! (Back in 1989.)

https://blog.zarfhome.com/2026/05/zil-grammar-flags

#InteractiveFiction #Infocom #ZIL

Zork agora é código aberto… E o que descobrimos a respeito.

https://retropolis.com.br/2025/12/04/zork-agora-e-codigo-aberto-e-o-que-descobrimos-a-respeito/

#MundoRetro #Activision #adventure #Blizzard #CdigoAberto #GitHub #infocom #microsoft #MIT #ZIL #zork

Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source.

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source

#Infocom #zil

Possibly the most important software news of this decade.

#zork #zil #infoCom

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/21/microsoft_zork_source/

Microsoft & Open Source Items Of Interest
Microsoft's Evil Quotient (EQ) has fluctuated over the years. On the average it was trending down for a while, but their sponsorship of OpenAI, and their ruining of Windows 11 and forcing many people to buy new machines to use it, have caused it to shoot right back up again.

But they have made tw
https://setsideb.com/microsoft-open-source-items-of-our-interest/
#niche #retro #basic #code #infocom #microsoft #niche #opensource #retro #zil #zork

Microsoft Open-Source Programs Office Director Stacy Haffner, and Developer Community VP Scott Hanselman announced today in the wake of Microsoft's acquisition of Activision, that they have just released the source code for the games Zork 1-3 under a MIT open-source license.

"Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source"

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source

#programming #mdl #muddle #zil #foss #zork #opensource #github #preservation #mit #microsoft

Learning Zork Implementation Language, by Steve Meretzky
Back in the days of hallowed Infocom, the people who made a living making text adventures better than anyone else ever has before or since, life was often pretty harrowing. They had some huge hits, like Zork, Planetfall and The
https://setsideb.com/learning-zork-implementation-language-by-steve-meretzky/
#niche #retro #adventures #development #infocom #internetarchive #manual #niche #pdf #retro #SteveMeretzsky #textadventures #zil

New article out! "Studies of ZIL, Part 1: History of Infocom and the Z-Machine" by Max Fog. In this first part of a series on the ZIL language, the Z-machine is discussed.

#InteractiveFiction #Infocom #zil

A Complete Playthrough of the Original Zork Games
Three videos of a Youtuber called SwimYBO going through all three of Infocom's classic Zork games. Zork was originally made for the PDP-10 by a number of students at MIT as a larger and funnier version of Colossal Cave, and was made all as one game. When remade for a v
https://setsideb.com/a-complete-playthrough-of-the-original-zork-games/
#retro #adventuregames #infocom #retro #SwimYBO #textadventures #video #youtube #zil #zmachine #zork

@jerry try the caching with zfs - i think it works pretty well? #zil #zlog

#GAZ and #ZiL: The Death Throes of #Soviet Luxury:

Greetings friends, both old and new, as I once again take you on a journey to the from the mid 80s to the late 90s to turn over some forgotten old stones and look at the weird, quirky #Cars that could've been. But weren't: #Car

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwMWyE0jyy8

Нам на балконе достался старый ходильник ЗИЛ
Мы его отмыли, убрали электрику, покрасили
Теперь это DC ZiL
Первая версия
В процессе сделать красивое крепление проводов к стенкам
#zil
(Внизу есть ящик для фруктов, туда перекочуют RaspberryPi и OrangePi. Все же можно их к фруктам отнести)

Zork And The Z-Machine: Bringing The Mainframe To 8-bit Home Computers - Computer games have been around about as long as computers have. And though it may be hard to believ... more: https://hackaday.com/2019/05/22/zork-and-the-z-machine-bringing-the-mainframe-to-8-bit-home-computers/ #colossalcaveadventure #textadventuregame #personalsoftware #retrocomputing #classichacks #originalart #z-machine #featured #interest #history #arpanet #infocom #arpa #zork #mdl #mit #zil