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Z-machine
1979
Infocom's portable virtual machine for interactive fiction, the byte-code engine that ran the classic text adventures across dozens of incompatible home computers.
Z-machine Online Emulator
Play Z-machine interactive fiction using JavaScript directly in your browser.
Controls
Boots a small public-domain Z-machine version-3 text adventure, "Tiny Cave". Type interactive-fiction commands at the prompt and press Enter: try look, north, south, wait, inventory, help or quit. The bar across the top is the version-3 status line (current room on the left, score and moves on the right). Click the screen first so it captures the keyboard. Open the debugger, or add ?debug, to single-step the Z-machine one Z-code opcode at a time, watch the PC and stack, and set breakpoints.
Configurations
| Configuration | Emulator | Machine | OS | Legal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tiny Cave | Z-machine | Z-machine | open | Open ⛶ |
Downloads - ROMs & software
| Title | Type | Size (bytes) | Legal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tiny Cave | game | 1630 | open | Download ↓ |
Machines
Emulators
| Emulator | Type | License | Site |
|---|---|---|---|
| Z-machine | online | Public domain |