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Malyon

posted by Zed on November 30 2003 21:29

Woo hoo! Malyon is an Emacs major mode for playing interactive fiction (text adventure) games. Infocom games were compiled into z-code to facilitate porting them to multiple platforms — they needed only to write a new z-code interpreter for the new platform and all their games would run. A clever hacker reverse engineered z-code and now there are interpreters everywhere like Malyon or Frobnitz for the Palm.

There are also several adventure writing systems out there, including Inform which compiles to z-code. And there are dozens of free games. Here’s one person’s guide to the best .

I refuse responsibility for any diminished productivity that results from following any of these links.

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