Glk/ZCode
| ZCode | ||
|---|---|---|
| Engine developer | David Griffith, dreammaster | |
| Companies that used it | Infocom and others | |
| Games that use it | innumerable games | |
| Date added to ScummVM | 2018-12-09 | |
| First release containing it | None | |
About
The ScummVM Z-code engine is based on Frotz. Frotz is the most popular Z-machine implementation, developed by Stefan Jokisch to play games adhering to the different Z-machine versions of text-based games, first introduced for the Zork series and following games by Infocom, then later Graham Nelson's Inform that became the de facto standard for interactive fiction.
Games
Infocom games:
- Zork I: The Great Underground Empire (1980)
- Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz (1981)
- Zork III: The Dungeon Master (1982)
- Deadline (1982)
- Starcross (1982)
- Suspended: A Cryogenic Nightmare (1983)
- The Witness (1983)
- Infidel (1983)
- Planetfall (1983)
- Enchanter (1983)
- Sorcerer (1984)
- Seastalker (1984)
- Cutthroats (1984)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984)
- Suspect (1984)
- A Mind Forever Voyaging (1985)
- Wishbringer: The Magick Stone of Dreams (1985)
- Spellbreaker (1985)
- Ballyhoo (1986)
- Hollywood Hijinx (1986)
- Leather Goddesses of Phobos (1986)
- Moonmist (1986)
- Trinity (1986)
- Border Zone (1987)
- Bureaucracy (1987)
- The Lurking Horror (1987)
- Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It (1987)
- Plundered Hearts (1987)
- Stationfall (1987)
- Beyond Zork (1987)
- Zork Zero (1988)
- Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels (1988)
- Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur (1989)
- James Clavell's Shōgun (1989)
- Journey: The Quest Begins (1989)
- Zork: The Undiscovered Underground (1997) (developed by Activision)
- Milliways (prototype) (created in 1988, released in 2008)
Converted from Alan2:
- Dinnertime (1999)
- Mazemapper (1999)
- The Mean Story (1999)
- To Get to the Other Side (1999)
- They're After You! (1999)
Converted from ScottFree - Adventure International games:
- Adventureland (1978)
- Pirate Adventure, a.k.a. Pirate Cove (1979)
- Mission: Impossible, a.k.a. Impossible Mission, a.k.a. Secret Mission (1979)
- Voodoo Castle (1979)
- The Count (1979)
- Strange Odyssey (1979)
- Mystery Fun House (1979)
- Pyramid of Doom (1979)
- Ghost Town (1980)
- Savage Island, Part I and II (1981)
- The Golden Voyage (1981)
- Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle (1982)
- Return to Pirate's Isle (1983)
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
- Questprobe: Featuring the Hulk a.k.a Marvel Adventure #1 (1984)
- Questprobe: Featuring Spider-Man (1984)
- Questprobe: Featuring the Human Torch and the Thing (1985)
Converted from ScottFree - Mysterious Adventures series:
- Mysterious Adventures 1: The Golden Baton (1981)
- Mysterious Adventures 2: The Time Machine (1981)
- Mysterious Adventures 3: Arrow of Death Part 1 (1981)
- Mysterious Adventures 4: Arrow of Death Part 2 (1982)
- Mysterious Adventures 5: Escape from Pulsar 7 (1982)
- Mysterious Adventures 6: Circus (1982)
- Mysterious Adventures 7: Feasibility Experiment (1982)
- Mysterious Adventures 8: The Wizard of Akyrz (1983)
- Mysterious Adventures 9: Perseus and Andromeda (1983)
- Mysterious Adventures 10: Ten Little Indians (1983)
- Mysterious Adventures 11: Waxworks (1983)
Converted from Miscellaneous architectures:
- Super Star Trek (1971-1974) (converted from BASIC to C to Inform)
- Hunt the Wumpus (1973) (converted from BASIC to to Inform)
- Colossal Cave Adventure (I: 1975-1977, II: 1978-1981, 2.5: 1995, 3: 1978, 4: 1995, 5: 1978, 6: 1984, 370: 1993) (converted from Fortran/C to Inform)
- Robots (1976) (converted from BASIC to Inform)
- Zork (1978) (the original release by the team that would become Infocom at MIT, converted to Inform) (converted from Fortran to Inform)
- Frankenstein Adventure (1981) (converted from TRS-80 BASIC to Inform)
- Softporn Adventure (1981) (converted from BASIC to Inform)
- Inhumane (1985) (converted from Applesoft Basic to Inform)
- Praser 5 (1985) (converted from Applesoft Basic to Inform)
- Werner's Quest 1: The Black Ladder (1985) (converted from The Quill Adventure System to Inform)
- Werner's Quest 2: Revenge of the Thing-Fish (1985) (converted from The Quill Adventure System to Inform)
- Werner's Quest 3: Rance the Dungeonkeeper (1985) (converted from The Quill Adventure System to Inform)
- Werner's Quest 4: Unchanter (1985) (converted from The Quill Adventure System to Inform)
- The Nine Dancers (1986) (converted from BBC BASIC to Inform)
- Uninvited (1986) (converted from MacVenture to Inform)
- Paranoia (1987) (converted from C to Inform)
- The Puppet-Man (1987) (converted from BBC to Inform)
- Shadowgate (1987) (converted from MacVenture to Inform)
- Snafufun (1988) (converted from BASIC to Inform)
- Night of the Vampire Bunnies (1989) (converted from BASIC to Inform)
- Adventure in Humongous Cave (1993) (converted from AGT (Adventure Game Toolkit) to Inform)
- Odieus's Quest for the Magic Flingshot (1993) (converted from LADS (Levy's Adventure Development System) to AGT (Adventure Game Toolkit) to Inform)
- Freefall (1995) (Inform version of the 1984 game Tetris)
- Icebreaker (converted from 3DO to Inform)
- Robot Finds Kitten (1997) (converted from C to Inform)
- Reverzi (1999) (Inform version of the board game Reversi, also known as Othello)
- Chaos In Space (2001) (aka Warp!) (converted from DOS to Inform)
- HLA Adventure (2004) (converted from HLA (high level assembly) to Inform)
- Rachel Has a Bad Day (2007) (converted from ADRIFT to Inform)
Other:
- A Change in the Weather (1995)
- The Mind Electric (1995)
- CompXX (1996)
- Lists and Lists (1996)
- Phlegm (1996)
- So Far (1996)
- Apartment F209 (1997)
- Bedlam (1997)
- The Edifice (1997)
- I-0 (1997)
- Phred Phontious and the Quest for Pizza (1997)
- Sins Against Mimesis (1997)
- The Space Under the Window (1997)
- The Chicken Under the Window (1998)
- Flowers for Algernon (1998)
- Hey, I'm Supposed to be Free Range (1998)
- In the End II (1998)
- Photopia (1998)
- Saied (1998)
- Spider And Web (1998)
- Three Steps to the Left (1998)
- Annoyotron (1999)
- Break-In (1999)
- Chicks Dig Jerks (1999)
- Coke Is It! (1999)
- Death to my Enemies (1999)
- Hunter, in Darkness (1999)
- The Mulldoon Legacy (1999)
- Revenger (1999)
- Varicella (1999)
- Zugzwang (1999)
- 9:05 (2000)
- Dragon! (2000)
- Fail-Safe (2000)
- Hallowe'en (2000)
- ManoZ (2000)
- My Angel (2000)
- Not Just A Game (2000)
- Shade (2000)
- Shrapnel (2000)
- Spitting Crumbs (2000)
- 1981 (2001)
- All Roads (2001)
- Discord (2001)
- Donkey Kong (2001)
- Finding Henry (2001)
- Fit for a Queen (2001)
- Hank Buzzcrack Has A Job To Do, God Damn It (2001)
- Heroes (2001)
- Jigsaw 2 (2001)
- Large Machine (2001)
- The Newcomer (2001)
- Pac-Man (2001)
- Peter Theta Fixes the Holodeck (2001)
- Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle (2001)
- The Sofa At The End Of The Universe (2001)
- A speedIF O entry (2001)
- Squeaky on the Moon (Fajfeta sur la Luno in Spanish) (2001)
- Stiffy Makane: The Undiscovered Country (2001)
- Tooth Ow Zunden Too (2001)
- Tooth Ow Zunden Won! (2001)
- A Walk Through Forever (2001)
- The Weapon (2001)
- Appallatron (2002)
- The Body (2002)
- Cheeseshop (2002)
- The Circus of Sadness (2002)
- Kraketoa Tuna Melt (2002)
- The Mulldoon Murders (2002)
- Soul-Searching (2002)
- The Angel Curse (2003)
- The Epitome of Toastlessness (2003)
- Insight (2003)
- Logic Puzzle Sampler (2003)
- The Thorn (2003)
- The Dreamhold (2004)
- Last Ride of the Night (2004)
- The Corn Identity (2005)
- Dreary Lands (2005)
- The Fox, The Dragon, and The Stale Loaf of Bread (2005)
- Where There's A Will (2005)
- Another Goddamn Escape the Locked Room Game (2005)
- An Abbreviated Night Before Christmas (2006)
- Bob's Garage (2006)
- Chicken and Egg (2006)
- Delightful Wallpaper (2006)
- An Escape To Remember (2006)
- I'll (2006)
- Southern Gothic (2006)
- This is the game that I wrote (2006)
- The Tower of the Elephant (2006)
- AFGNCAAP - IF Agent! Todays Adventure: Holy Goat! (2007)
- Dead Cities (2007)
- House of Dream of Moon (2007)
- Jack in the box (2007)
- The Day I shot ... (2007)
- Trainstopping (2007)
- Xmaton (2007)
- Attack of the Terror Tabby!!! (2008)
- Bedtime story (2008)
- A Night With Kes (2008)
- Once upon a winter night, the ragman came singing under your window (2008)
- Pick up the pine box and die (2008)
- The Day I mauled ... (2008)
- Nine-tenths of the Law (2008)
- Violet (2008)
- What Happens in Vagueness (2008)
- 69,105 (2009)
- HTP (2009)
- IF Progressive One (2009)
- Intimate Encounters (2009)
- The Lighthouse (2009)
- Make It Good (2009)
- Paranoia (2009)
- Teaching her to dance (2009)
- Yay Games (2009)
- The Day I stabbed Stalin (2010)
- Dual Transform (2010)
- Explore! (2010)
- A Green Rain (2010)
- Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home (2010)
- Hoosegow (2010)
- Lobsters On A Plane (2010)
- Le Roi de Fihnargaia (2010)
- Mango (2010)
- Being the Ending of the Beginning (2011)
- Birth of Mind (2011)
- Bored Ladders (2011)
- Blue (2011)
- Cold Iron (2011)
- The Day I saved Elvis (2011)
- Delusions Again (2011)
- The extraordinary events of the last day of Professor Mangleworth (2011)
- Hangar 22 (2011)
- The man-eating, halitosic gorilla of Brazil (2011)
- Schießbefehl (2011)
- You've Got a Stew Going! (2011)
- And a Hippo New Year (2012)
- Color of Milk Coffee (2012)
- Dinner Bell (2012)
- Endless, Nameless (2012)
- Fingertips: All Alone (2012)
- Fingertips: Aren't You the Guy Who Hit Me in the Eye? (2012)
- Fingertips: Come On and Wreck My Car (2012)
- Fingertips: Everything Is Catching On Fire (2012)
- Fingertips: Fingertips (2012)
- Fingertips: Fingertips (Reprise) (2012)
- Fingertips: Hey Now, Everybody (2012)
- Fingertips: I Don't Understand You (2012)
- Fingertips: I Found a New Friend (2012)
- Fingertips: I Heard a Sound (2012)
- Fingertips: I Walk Along Darkened Corridors (2012)
- Fingertips: I'm Having a Heart Attack (2012)
- Fingertips: Leave Me Alone (2012)
- Fingertips: Please Pass the Milk Please (2012)
- Fingertips: Something Grabbed Ahold of My Hand (2012)
- Fingertips: The Day That Love Came To Play (2012)
- Fingertips: What's That Blue Thing Doing Here? (2012)
- Fingertips: Who's Knockin' on the Wall? (2012)
- Fingertips: Who's That Standing Out the Window (2012)
- IF Whispers 5 (2012)
- The Legend of the Missing Hat (2012)
- Nautilisia (2012)
- Parasites (2012)
- A Reading in May (2012)
- Dig My Grave (2012)
- The Statue Got Me High (2012)
- The Day I died (2013)
- The day I hugged Ghandi! (2013)
- Es kam aus den Alpen (2013)
- The Horrible Pyramid (2013)
- The Nessa Springs Slasher (2013)
- The Paper Bag Princess (2013)
- The tale of the cursed eagle (2013)
- Wrenlaw (2013)
- Craverly Heights (2014)
- The Day I came back (2014)
- Illuminate (2014)
- Kii!Wii! (2014)
- Monster Maker (2014)
- More (2014)
- The Mundane Tale of the Morning After (2014)
- So, You've Never Played a Text Adventure Before, Huh? (2014)
- Tea Ceremony (2014)
- By the Lake (2015)
- The Day of the Queen (2015)
- Discover the World (2015)
- Hippo on Elm Street (2015)
- The oldest hangover on Earth (2015)
- Ombre (2015)
- Someone Keeps Moving My Chair (2015)
- The Story of the Shinoboo (2015)
- The Day time stood still (2016)
- Life with OCD (2016)
- Baking With Lizzie (2017)
- Eggstraordinary Adventure (2017)
- The Bean Stalker (2018)
- Walk Among Us (2018)
Status
A work-in-progress sub-engine of the new Glk API has been added based on Frotz.