JavaZMach

A Z-Machine interpreter in Java

Many instructions aren't supported, but the interpreter is able to run ZORK1 (version Z3).

When importing this project in Eclipse, tick "Check for nested projects" in the import dialog.

There are currently two UI backends; located in JavaZMachConsoleUI and JavaZMachSWTUI.<br> JavaZMachConsoleUI is not perfect as it has to emulate some Z-Machine screen functions.

Sources for contents of storyfiles/ and doc/:

• The Z-Machine Standards Document (version 1.1) (Great Z-Machine documentation written by Graham Nelson)
• The Quetzal Z-Machine Saved Game Standard ("Quetzal: a common format for saved-game files")
• The Z-Machine, and How to Emulate It (version 0.6e) (Another Z-Machine documentation. Covers more implementation details)
• IFDB - Zork I
• The Interactive Fiction Archive - Infocom - Interpreters - Tools (Most test story files come from this site: CZECH, TerpEtude, strictz)
• praxix.z5 at EBLONG - Zarfhome. See also http://eblong.com/zarf/ftp/.
• trinity.DAT (named trinity.z4 in this repo) at Illuminion - Infocom
• Unfortunately, I can't find the source for sanddancer.z8 anymore. The "official" website of Sanddancer doesn't seem to have a .z8 version of this game.

You can find many other games at Historicalsource.

Note that JavaZMachAssembler depends on net.haspamelodica.parser.