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*[[Odieus's Quest for the Magic Flingshot]] (1993) (converted from LADS (Levy's Adventure Development System) to [[Glk/AGT|AGT]] (Adventure Game Toolkit) to Inform)
*[[Odieus's Quest for the Magic Flingshot]] (1993) (converted from LADS (Levy's Adventure Development System) to [[Glk/AGT|AGT]] (Adventure Game Toolkit) to Inform)
*[[Freefall]] (1995) (Inform version of the 1984 game ''[[Tetris]]'')
*[[Freefall]] (1995) (Inform version of the 1984 game ''[[Tetris]]'')
*[[Icebreaker: The Text Adventure|Icebreaker]] (converted from 3DO to Inform)
*[[Icebreaker: The Text Adventure|Icebreaker]] (1995) (converted from 3DO to Inform)
*[[Quest for the Magic Healing Plant]] (1995) (converted from [[Glk/AGT|AGT]] to Inform)
*[[Robot Finds Kitten]] (1997) (converted from C to Inform)
*[[Robot Finds Kitten]] (1997) (converted from C to Inform)
*[[Reverzi]] (1999) (Inform version of the board game ''Reversi'', also known as ''Othello'')
*[[Reverzi]] (1999) (Inform version of the board game ''Reversi'', also known as ''Othello'')
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*[[Phlegm]] (1996)
*[[Phlegm]] (1996)
*[[So Far]] (1996)
*[[So Far]] (1996)
*[[Vindaloo]] (1996)
*[[Apartment F209]] (1997)
*[[Apartment F209]] (1997)
*[[Bedlam]] (1997)
*[[Bedlam]] (1997)
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*[[The Mulldoon Legacy]] (1999)
*[[The Mulldoon Legacy]] (1999)
*[[Revenger]] (1999)
*[[Revenger]] (1999)
*[[Thorfinn's Realm]] (1999)
*[[Varicella]] (1999)
*[[Varicella]] (1999)
*[[Zugzwang]] (1999)
*[[Zugzwang]] (1999)
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*[[Cheeseshop]] (2002)
*[[Cheeseshop]] (2002)
*[[The Circus of Sadness]] (2002)
*[[The Circus of Sadness]] (2002)
*[[Glossary]] (2002)
*[[Glossary (2002)|Glossary]] (2002)
*[[Kraketoa Tuna Melt]] (2002)
*[[Kraketoa Tuna Melt]] (2002)
*[[The Mulldoon Murders]] (2002)
*[[The Mulldoon Murders]] (2002)
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*[[Turning Point]] (2004)
*[[Turning Point]] (2004)
*[[Authority]] (2005)
*[[Authority]] (2005)
*[[La Canción del Bardo]] (2005)
*[[The Colour Pink]] (2005)
*[[The Colour Pink]] (2005)
*[[The Corn Identity]] (2005)
*[[The Corn Identity]] (2005)
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*[[More]] (2014)
*[[More]] (2014)
*[[The Mundane Tale of the Morning After]] (2014)
*[[The Mundane Tale of the Morning After]] (2014)
*[[The Northnorth Passage]] (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)
*[[Tea Ceremony]] (2014)
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*[[Six Gray Rats Crawl Up The Pillow]] (2015)
*[[Six Gray Rats Crawl Up The Pillow]] (2015)
*[[Someone Keeps Moving My Chair]] (2015)
*[[Someone Keeps Moving My Chair]] (2015)
*[[Starry Seeksorrow]] (2015)
*[[The Story of the Shinoboo]] (2015)
*[[The Story of the Shinoboo]] (2015)
*[[The Day time stood still]] (2016)
*[[The Day time stood still]] (2016)
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*[[Eggstraordinary Adventure]] (2017)
*[[Eggstraordinary Adventure]] (2017)
*[[The Bean Stalker]] (2018)
*[[The Bean Stalker]] (2018)
*[[Fin de sickleburg]] (2018)
*[[Walk Among Us]] (2018)
*[[Walk Among Us]] (2018)
*[[The Four Eccentrics]] (2019)


==Status==
==Status==

Revision as of 15:06, 28 September 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 2.2.0

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