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Mysterious Zork Zcode Interpreters Materialize Unexpectedly

Originally Published 2 years ago — by Hackaday

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Interpreters for Zork, the popular 1977 text adventure game, have recently surfaced online for classic 1980s machines. Zork is not a PDP-10 executable but a virtual machine executable, run by an interpreter written for the PDP-10. The game was compiled into "Z-machine" program files called ZIP, and while the compiler has not been released, the language and ZIP specifications have allowed for the creation of custom ZIP compilers. Additionally, there are other types of interpreters, such as programming languages that are interpreted directly from source code.