For nerds of my generation, Infocom is a legend.

With no commentary or narration but made up of the protagonists’ testimonies alone, it effectively evokes the excitement and enthusiasm around the early computer game (and software development in general) of those early years. It is also a cautionary tale about how easy it is to fall once you reach the peak

Der Spieleentwickler Andrew Plotkin hat den Code bei Github bereitgestellt. Die Implementierungen decken die damals verbreiteten Personal- und Heimcomputer (Mikrocomputer) ab: darunter Commodore 64 und 128, IBM-PC, Apple Macintosh, Amiga, Atari ST, BBC Acorn, CBM Plus/4, Tandy TRS-80, Texas Instruments TI-99/4 und der Zilog-Z80-Prozessor, der unter anderem im Sinclair ZX Spectrum arbeitete. Ebenfalls dabei ist eine Referenz-Portierung der Z-Machine auf PDP-11 von DEC (historisch als Minicomputer bezeichnet).

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