Music inspired by Infocom games - LURKING HORROR #music #infocom #interactivefiction #retrogaming #lurkinghorror #davelebling #horror #lovecraftian

“For #ZIL to work, it needed to be able to run code to handle those special interactions like turning the lamp on or off; it needed, in other words, to be a proper, Turing-complete #programming #language, not just a data-entry system. But how to do that while also having a system that was portable from machine to (incompatible) machine? The answer: they would design a #VirtualMachine, an imaginary computer optimized just for playing text adventures in the same way that ZIL was for #coding them, then code an interpreter to simulate that computer on each platform for which they decided to release #Zork.”

#infocom / #zil / #DaveLebling / #DECVT00 <https://www.filfre.net/2012/01/zil-and-the-z-machine/>