Play classic text-based interactive fiction through a Z-machine core built for RetroArch on PC. This free-to-play emulator handles most Version 3 Z-machine games, letting you run the bulk of Infocom's classic titles. Newer Infocom works on Versions 4 through 6 stay out of reach for now, along with modern Inform-built stories that demand Version 5 or higher.
Text adventures thrive on typed commands and parser-driven responses in these parser-based games. Fans of old-school Infocom releases get a dedicated way to revisit that era's interactive fiction. Expect compatibility limits on later Z-machine versions until updates arrive.
A Z device core for playing text-based interactive fiction.
This program currently supports most of the Version 3 Z-Machine. This is enough to play the vast majority of Infocom's catalog. Later Infocom games used version 4, 5, and 6 of the Z-Machine, and those will currently not run here. Most modern Interactive Fiction is built with a tool called Inform and usually targets version 5 at the lowest; these games currently don't work with this project. Maybe later.
