zorch

A Z-machine (interactive fiction interpreter) in Clojure.

Introduction

zorch is a cross-platform interpreter for Infocom-style interactive fiction games. It's still in development, and not in a usable state yet.

Checklist

Milestone 1: Basic functionality

• Read data from Z-code files
• Parse the story header
• Translate to and from Z-characters/ZSCII
• Load the dictionary and look up words
• Random numbers
• Load and manipulate the object tree
• Load & run routines
• A front-end for displaying & receiving text
• Implement enough opcodes to get Zork I and So Far working

Milestone 2: Intermediate functionality

• Save and restore in Quetzal format
• Window & menu support
• Transcription support
• Character graphics (the Beyond Zork map, etc.)
• Font 3 support

Milestone 3: The distant future

• Unicode support
• Sound support (Blorb)
• Sound support (Idiosyncratic Infocom formats)
• Support for version 1 and 2 game files
• Graphics support (Zork Zero, Journey, etc.)

Things that would be handy for debugging

• GUI inspector for the object tree
• Disassembler for routines