Z-machine
Z-machine is a programming language created in 1980. The Z-machine is a virtual machine that was developed by Joel Berez and Marc Blank in 1979 and used by Infocom for its text adventure games. Infocom compiled game code to files containing Z-machine instructions (called story files or Z-code files) and could therefore port its text adventures to a new platform simply by writing a Z-machine implementation for that platform. With the large number of incompatible home computer systems in use at the time, this was an important advantage over using native code or developing a compiler for each system. Read more on Wikipedia...
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- Z-machine first appeared in 1980
- See also: lisp, inform, linux, c, unix, ios, tads
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Last updated January 18th, 2020