Retro gaming and z-code versions

Apr. 1st, 2026 10:26 pm
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Staring at my folders of Infocom text adventure / interactive fiction game files (from the Lost Treasures of Infocom boxes I bought new decades ago), and wondering what Z-code format one of them is in. "Let's try Z5!" says me. And whether that's the right or wrong version, Lectrote opens and runs it. Off into foggy Victorian London for a Sherlockian adventure ...

Screenshot of a text adventure playing, light text against a black background, large font. Text at the top includes "221-B Baker Street", and the words "You are standing in the spill of a gas streetlight outside Holmes's house. The street disappears into the fog to the north and south. The door to the house is to the west." The next paragraph says "You have come in response to an urgent summons from your old landlady, Mrs Hudson. As the fog swirls around you, you huddle into your coat and shiver in the predawn chill." And then there's a flashing cursor at a ">" prompt waits for player input.
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