Apr 29, 2019
The Infocom Source Code Episode: The Specialness of
Infocom, The Craft, The Z-Machine, Z-Machine Glories, Full
Sentences and Every Platform, GET LAMP, The Infocom .ZIP File, A
Release, Stu Galley, Github, The Clones and Branches, Steve and
Kevin have a chat.
An episode about the release of the Infocom Source
Code on Github. It's currently available on the HistoricalSource
collection there:
https://github.com/historicalsource
The ZIL Language is now having a little renaissance and I hope to see some actual games come out of it. Until then, I'm not kidding - type in the name of any Infocom game and you can probably be playing it within seconds.
I recommend a walk through the document Steve Meretzky wrote at
Infocom to explain the ZIL source code here:
https://archive.org/details/Learning_ZIL_Steven_Eric_Meretzky_1995
Here's the video of the chat with Steve and Kevin:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/416801231