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OFC you don't know what Zork and the ZMachine are about. Zork it's propietary, but the standard virtual machine isn't. You have several interpreters to choose
by anthk 2y ago
OFC you don't know what Zork and the ZMachine are about.
Zork it's propietary, but the standard virtual machine isn't.
You have several interpreters to choose form: Frotz, Fizmo, DFrotz, ScummVM (yes, that one, albeit a simple terminal with Frotz it's much better), Lectrote...
Altough I'd call the original MIT Zork 'Schrodinger licensed', because today they are fighting back and forth with MIT veterans so the original source from Dungeon gets a libre compatible license instead of a non-commercial one.
BTW, a libre licensed ZMachine game, Tristam Island (and Calypso, too) will run on far more plataforms than Doom itself. From C64's, to smartphones, pens and even a Game Boy.
- Turboblack 2y agoAs I understand it, the essence of the post is not to benefit the IT industry, but to promote something unnecessary, while it is significant to minus absolutely all the answers of those whose opinions radically differ from the author’s
- ycombiredd 2y agoI don’t know how you can possibly think exercises implementing ludicrous ideas are unnecessary, nor why you consider either Doom or Zork irrelevant to the IT industry.
- Turboblack 2y agobecause this is a project in the “I do it because I can” style and not in the “project that brings benefits” type. time wasted on yet another opportunity to launch doom on a Chinese plastic spoon. I would support it if this was a post about options for improving the user interface, or about optimizing some specific software. about creating backward compatibility with old OSes and PCs. but no! This is just another doom. of which there are already thousands. pure show off. but no benefit.
- kreeben 2y agoSir, Facebook is over there [points west]. This is HN.