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Pitarou

So that's:

1. Zork

2. running in the Infocom Virtual Machine

3. running in an IBM PC emulator

4. running in Javascript

6. running in x86 machine code

and x86 maintains backwards compatibility with that original IBM PC through

7. hardware instruction set translation

It's nice to know all those transistors aren't sitting idle.

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For fewer layers (and faster playing) you can use Parchment: http://iplayif.com/?story=http://www.batmantis.com/zorks/zor...

Though the status line doesn't work... I should fix that.

And if you like Zork, try these modern classics:

Lost pig: http://iplayif.com/?story=http://mirror.ifarchive.org/if-arc...

Spider and Web: http://iplayif.com/?story=http://mirror.ifarchive.org/if-arc...

Great. I like those interactive fiction and will play Lost pig :) What is missing is some sort of save game option via web storage. And maybe you should give some example links on the first page. bookmarked

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