Show HN: Resurrecting Infocom's Unix Z-Machine with Cosmopolitan

Notes on Porting a UNIX Classic with Cosmopolitan I made standalone executables of the Zork trilogy, ported from original Infocom UNIX source to Cosmopolitan, are available for Windows/Mac/Linux/bsd for arm/x86 machines. These require no further installation nor external files to play. Here’s how to download and play Zork on the CLI: wget https://github.com/ChristopherDrum/pez/releases/download/v1.0.0/zork1 chmod +x zork1 ./zork1 # This one executable runs on any and all targetted platforms # `zork2` and `zork3` are available, for trilogy completionists # Windows users, add `.exe` to the downloaded file to make Windows happy Want to run an arbitrary .z3 text adventure file? Download the z-machine from here About the project Recently I published v3.0 of Status Line, a project which makes Zork playble on the Pico-8, onto three major operating systems. With that deployed successfully (is there a ‘knock on wood’ emoji?) I turned to porting Infocom’s original UNIX z-machine sourc ... Read full article.