As for opening the ZMachine games (V3/5/8), you know, from Zork and friends... there's Winfrotz on Windows, Lectrote on Android/OSX whatever, and Frotz for Linu

As for opening the ZMachine games (V3/5/8), you know, from Zork and friends... there's Winfrotz on Windows, Lectrote on Android/OSX whatever, and Frotz for Linux/BSD diehard fans. Oh, and Frotz for Amiga, Atari, DOS, old Macs...) That's why I suggested you Inform6. Even with Inform7, a Z8 machine game (look up Anchorhead anchor.z8 and Inside Woman woman.z8 under a search engine) they will look and play well on really, really old computers. Download and open them in order to see what the ZMachine and Inform are able to do with very little constraints. The 1st game it's a Lovecraftian tale set in the 90's (hello Stephen King), the second one a futuristic/half-cyberpunk/dystopian one. And is not the best one I've seen. They are jewels like Spider and Web (tangle.z5), a techno-triller which is a bit like Memento/Bourne and similar movies. Again, these are playable from a current powerhouse computer to a DOS one from 1993. And they are far better than the guess-the-word games from the 80's, the community improved the Infocom's ZMachine to really easy levels. In order to start with Inform6, I suggest you to learn with "Inform's Begginers' Guide', a free to download book. For advanced stuff, there's the Inform Designed manual, but that's for really low level stuff. Such as declaring really fancy grammars or even a new one for languages like Italian to create parsers for that language, for instance (as we already have a library for Spanish games). But it's good to have (dm4.pdf) in order to debug issues. Have fun.