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Also, the Z-machine that ran Zork and other Infocom games was an early example of a cross-platform bytecode interpreter, well before Java and the like.

• TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
  I know it was a cross platform virtual machine, but Did it actually interpret byte code and not just text?
  • chongli 4y ago
    Yes. Z-machine specifies a table of 256 opcodes. Developers write code in ZIL (Z-machine Implementation Language), a text-based source code. The ZIL is then compiled into a byte code program consisting of those 1-byte opcodes as well as arguments and static data.
  • anthk 4y ago
    The are new games made for the zmachine since the 90s.
• Bluecobra 4y ago
  It’s really amazing how they pulled off Zork for micros. I think it took up ~1MB of memory on a PDP-10?
  • fzzzy 4y ago
    That's why they split the micro version into Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III. The original version had all three.