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1. Ars Technica (arstechnica@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Nov-2023 04:22:17 JST Ars Technica

   Infocom’s ingenious code-porting tools for Zork and other games have been found

   The Z-machine allowed porting from mainframes to TRS-80, Apple II, and others.

   https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/11/infocoms-ingenious-code-porting-tools-for-zork-and-other-games-have-been-found/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

   • Chancerubbage (chancerubbage@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Nov-2023 04:37:18 JST Chancerubbage

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     @arstechnica I always wanted a pure carbon copy of the ‘Adventure’ I played on mainframes.

     We would preload the first 20 commands waiting for the mainframe to send it to our terminal and start halfway through the caverns.

     But Zork wasn’t repeating itself, uh I mean, Adventure, verbatim..

     I sort of wanted it to repeat itself, accomplish a perfect speed run.

   • JeffMorgan (jeffmorgan@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Nov-2023 04:41:05 JST JeffMorgan

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     @arstechnica beware the grues.

   • max oakland (maxoakland@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Nov-2023 04:41:40 JST max oakland

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     @arstechnica it almost looks like it has a gui