Z-machine
Virtual machine for interactive fiction games / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the Infocom virtual machine. For the x-ray generator informally known as the "Z machine", see Z Pulsed Power Facility.
The Z-machine is a virtual machine that was developed by Joel Berez and Marc Blank in 1979 and used by Infocom for its text adventure games. Infocom compiled game code to files containing Z-machine instructions (called story files or Z-code files) and could therefore port its text adventures to a new platform simply by writing a Z-machine implementation for that platform. With the large number of incompatible home computer systems in use at the time, this was an important advantage over using native code or developing a compiler for each system.
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Designer | Infocom |
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Bits | 16 |
Introduced | 1979 |
Version | 1.1 (2014) |
Design | CISC |
Endianness | Big |
Open | Yes |
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