Z-Machine interpreters & the FAQ


Wed, 06 Dec 1995 14:10:56 +0100

Dear IFfers,

Recently Bjorn Gustavsson suggested to me that I include a section in the FAQ
detailing Z-Machine interpreters. As Bjorn says, "No other adventure writing
system has that amount of different interpreters, written and ported by
different programmers."

I'd briefly considered this a while ago, and now with the Standard attempting
to bring some order to the situation I think the time is ripe for such a
section. I would treat this in much the same way as the section on authoring
systems. I would list interpreters by system, detailing the Standard ones
(or the most advanced one for platforms with no Standard). I wouldn't want
to make this a long section, but I do think it's relevant to IF authorship,
especially now that interpreter-writers are building debugging utilities into
their interpreters.

Are there any suggestions/objections?

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