I recently discovered a Z-code interpreter for iPhone - Frotz - and my life is complete! Z-code is the way of coding those text based interactive adventure games which were the basis for my love of computers in the early 80's. There are any number of Z-code adventures which can be played on any Z-code interpreter, including several versions of the classic Will Crowther Colossal Cave/Adventure. But in particular Z-code was used by the company Infocom to produce some classic games of all time.
As well as the popular Zork series, my personal favourites included a quirky 'Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy' game as well as the hilarious comedic outing 'Leather Goddess of Phobos'. If you have original versions of these games you can use the original Z-code data file for an interpreter like Frotz (which has been ported to many platforms). If you don't own the original games, then for the enterprising there may be other sources (*cough* *cough* *torrents*) for the z-code files. Once you've obtained the files, you need to put them on a server somewhere, then Frotz iPhone can browse to the appropriate URL and can download the z-code files.
Anyway I'm going to stop blogging now and get down to it! Ahhhhhh, memories...
"You wake up. The room is spinning very gently round your head. Or at least it would be if you could see it, which you can't.
It is pitch black."
I remember those games - v cool.
But, life will be complete for me when MAME is finally ported to the iphone...
Posted by: fernando | Wednesday, 24 September 2008 at 12:08 PM