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*[[Super Star Trek]] (1971-1974) (converted from BASIC to C to Inform)
*[[Super Star Trek]] (1971-1974) (converted from BASIC to C 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)
*[[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)
*[[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 to Inform)
*[[Frankenstein Adventure]] (1981) (converted from TRS-80 to Inform)
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*[[Southern Gothic]] (2006)
*[[Southern Gothic]] (2006)
*[[This is the game that I wrote]] (2006)
*[[This is the game that I wrote]] (2006)
*[[The Tower of the Elephant]] (2006)
*[[AFGNCAAP - IF Agent! Todays Adventure: Holy Goat!]] (2007)
*[[AFGNCAAP - IF Agent! Todays Adventure: Holy Goat!]] (2007)
*[[House of Dream of Moon]] (2007)
*[[House of Dream of Moon]] (2007)

Revision as of 08:45, 7 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