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They're not available for sale, but you can find them all as clickable epubs. (Any device that can run a Z-machine can run an epub reader just as easily.)
by dfabulich 5y ago
They're not available for sale, but you can find them all as clickable epubs. (Any device that can run a Z-machine can run an epub reader just as easily.)
- mrob 5y agoAny modern device will run both, but Infocom's Z-machine ran on old 8-bit home computers. Even if you ignore EPUB's image support (which includes the complicated SVG format), EPUB is zipped XHTML+CSS. I'd be very surprised if you could fit a parser and renderer for all that in the limited RAM they had available.
- anthk 5y agoV3 games ran on 8 bit computers, but v5 games (most of modern ones) only run well under a 16 bit one. As for epubs, netbsd runs on Amiga and Classic Mac, and if lynx and unzip work, so do epub files with a crappy script. It's 2020 and an RPI or an ESP32 are dirt cheap, and you can get a 486 machine even for free.
- cogburnd02 5y agoI suppose an epub would be pretty easy to convert (on a modern machine) into something like ZIL for ZILF. Good thinking.