ZIP Interpreter Index

ZIP - Infocom Z-code Interpreter Program V2.0 07nov93, by Mark Howell.

      This interpreter will run all Infocom V1 to V5 games. It includes
     support for timeouts in Border Zone, screen displays in Beyond Zork
             and implements the #record debugging function, etc.
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Source

• Source code

  Portable source code for Amiga, DOS, BSD Unix, and VMS. Also availabe in a DOS ZIP file and an Amiga LHA file.

• JZip

  Version 2.0.1e by John Holder. Based on Mark Howell's version 2.0 source code, and incorporates changes for Borland C (DOS), Bureaucracy under Unix, a better random number generator, and Inform V8 games.

• Linux Patches

  Patches to ZIP source code for Linux and other non-BSD Unix variants, by Sander van Malssen.

• Macintosh MaxZip

  MaxZip v 1.2.1 source code. Written by Andrew C. Plotkin.

• Macintosh port

  Ported by Matthew T. Russotto.

• Macintosh experimental enhanced ZIP

  Allows proportional and styled text. Source code code for an example game with styled text can be found in the Inform Programming Page, Goldskull ZeX.

• Macintosh enhanced ZIP README

  Notes about the experimental, enhanced version of ZIP for the Macintosh.

• OS/2

  Source code with OS/2 modifications, by John W. Kennedy.

• X Windows

  XZip v 1.4; supports up to V8 Z-code. Written by Andrew C. Plotkin. Contains ANSI-C source code.

Executables

• AmigaZip

  executable and description file.
  Requires OS 1.2 or better. Contains support for Inform V8 games and a better random number generator, by Werther 'Mircko' Pirani.

• Amiga

  Amiga executable.

• Atari ST for TOS and MINT

  Ported by Charles Briscoe-Smith.

• DOS JZip

  DOS Executable of JZIP v 2.0.1e (28sep95), by John Holder.

• Macintosh MaxZip

  MaxZip v 1.3.0 Macintosh executable; full Macintosh application with many features, by Andrew C. Plotkin, based on Mark Howell's ZIP 2.0.7.
  Fat Macintosh binary, requires System 7 and 1600K of free memory.

• Macontish enhanced ZIP executable.

  Ported by Matthew T. Russotto. Allows proportional and styled text. Source code code for an example game with styled text can be found in the Inform Programming Page, Goldskull ZeX.

• multiAventures

  Written by Pierre Tremblay; his comment:
  "Here is multiAventures, a program that may be useful to play text adventure games. Because you are adventurers, I let you discover how it works. It should not be too difficult to do so, even if the graphical interface is in french."

• DOS Zip 2.00

  Written by Mark Howell.

• DOS Zip 2.03

  Modified version of Zip 2.00 done by Stefan Jokisch with permission by Mark Howell.

• DOS Windows WInfocom Beta 1.0 (07aug94)

  MS Windows executable, ported by Ido Razon

• MS Windows v 1.1

  Ported by Ron Murray.

• OS/2

  Ported by John W. Kennedy.