Play Zork and other zmachine files on Linux.

 by Computothought
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Sort of miss the old text adventures where you were allowed to use your imagination. This instructable uses what is known as the zmachine. There are a ton of zmachine games out there. Just use your web search engine to find them.  In this case I will at least get you a zork starter file.
 
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Step 1: Get the zmachine source code and games:

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You need to go to http://www.eblong.com/zarf/xzip.html and download the source code.
To get some games go to http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXgamesXzcode.html .
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