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Any 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 complicate
by mrob 5y ago
Any 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.