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Fun with Z-Code (aka Inform)
Games: 06/23/10 at 20:07:55 MDT by SafePit
Okay, I've been a fan of adventure games, and specifically Infocom games, for most of my life. I have fond memories of playing great games such as "Planet Fall" and "Zork" when I was in high school on my C64. However, even before playing those games, I was playing and writing games on my ZX81 using a very simple adventure engine. Now, I found Inform some years ago and ported mine and one of those old ZX81 games to Z-Code, Infocom's resurrected virtual machine. Normally you have to have an interpreter to play those games, but browsers are much more powerful now. That, and I wanted something I could potential play on my iPod from a web page. To that end, there is a great little javascript Z-Code interpreter called Parchment. Even cooler, they have a simple API that you can feed it a link to your Z-Code and it will play it. Well Hot Dog! I have some Z-Code files already, so I gave it a try! And, you know what, it works great in Safari! If you're bored and looking for a quick adventure fix, give these two very short games a try:THE TOMB CAVERNS
CITY OF ALZAN
P.S. Playing through Caverns, I found some more mistakes I missed. (sigh) Since Inform 7 is out, I probably will just give it a spin instead of trying to fix anything. Live a little! [ View Article ]
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LEGO and ZX81 Geocities Content Moved
News: 10/25/09 at 20:52:51 MDT by SafePit
Yahoo! will be shutting down Geocities tomorrow, 10/26/09, which means an end to my old LEGO and ZX81 website. Although I hadn't updated those sites much since Yahoo! turned off ftp access, Geocities had remained my presence on the web for almost 12 years. Sad to say, it will be sad to see it go.Fortunately, I have my own domain and hosting now that I finally got around to moving my old Geocities content to. To make things easy, I moved the content as sub-domains of this site. For my LEGO content go to http://lego.reids4fun.com. If you're looking for my ZX81 content go to http://zx81.reids4fun.com. Please update any links accordingly. [ View Article ]
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