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*[[The Fox, The Dragon, and The Stale Loaf of Bread]] (2005)
*[[The Fox, The Dragon, and The Stale Loaf of Bread]] (2005)
*[[Where There's A Will]] (2005)
*[[Where There's A Will]] (2005)
*[[Another Goddamn Escape the Locked Room Game]] (2005)
*[[Bob's Garage]] (2006)
*[[Bob's Garage]] (2006)
*[[Delightful Wallpaper]] (2006)
*[[Delightful Wallpaper]] (2006)
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*[[The Mundane Tale of the Morning After]] (2014)
*[[The Mundane Tale of the Morning After]] (2014)
*[[So, You've Never Played a Text Adventure Before, Huh?]] (2014)
*[[So, You've Never Played a Text Adventure Before, Huh?]] (2014)
*[[Tea Ceremony]] (2014)
*[[By the Lake]] (2015)
*[[By the Lake]] (2015)
*[[The Day of the Queen]] (2015)
*[[The Day of the Queen]] (2015)
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*[[Eggstraordinary Adventure]] (2017)
*[[Eggstraordinary Adventure]] (2017)
*[[The Bean Stalker]] (2018)
*[[The Bean Stalker]] (2018)
*[[Walk Among Us]] (2018)
==Status==
==Status==
A work-in-progress sub-engine of the new [[Glk]] API has been added based on Frotz.
A work-in-progress sub-engine of the new [[Glk]] API has been added based on Frotz.

Revision as of 11:40, 6 July 2020

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:

Converted from Alan2:

Converted from ScottFree - Adventure International games:

Converted from ScottFree - Mysterious Adventures series:

Converted from Miscellaneous architectures:

Other:

Status

A work-in-progress sub-engine of the new Glk API has been added based on Frotz.

Resources

External links