{"id":232,"date":"2007-07-20T13:27:53","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T19:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/archives\/232"},"modified":"2007-11-30T13:20:32","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T19:20:32","slug":"how-to-get-zork-i-zork-ii-and-zork-iii-running-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"How to get zork I, zork II, and zork III running in linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well your first step is to download the files.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infocom-if.org\/downloads\/downloads.html\">Infocom &#8211; Zork Downloads<\/a> you&#8217;ll then need to download zork1.zip, zork2.zip or zork3.zip from that page.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8211; Just click the titles to download. &#8211;<!--more--><br \/>\nAfter that you&#8217;re going to need to install a Z-Machine.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They designed a special programming language, which through an emulator could run on any computer and called it &#8220;Z-Machine.&#8221; It was a &#8220;virtual processor,&#8221; which ran on the newly compiled &#8220;ZIL,&#8221; &#8220;Zork Implementation Language&#8221; while every home computer got its own &#8220;ZIP,&#8221; &#8220;Z-Machine Interpreter Program,&#8221; that could interpretate the Z-Machine code for it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infocom-if.org\/company\/company.html\">Here is a little history on what a Z-Machine is.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu linux is pretty cool, all you need to do is apt-get your z-machine.<br \/>\n<code>$ sudo apt-get install frotz<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Once that is done, the final step is to unzip zork 1, zork 2, or zork 3.  Depending on what you wish to play.<\/p>\n<p><code>$ frotz DATA\/ZORK1.DAT<\/code><\/p>\n<p>And poof you&#8217;re playing zork 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well your first step is to download the files. Infocom &#8211; Zork Downloads you&#8217;ll then need to download zork1.zip, zork2.zip or zork3.zip from that page.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8211; Just click the titles to download. &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,10,8,1,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insanity","category-linux","category-linux-2","category-tech","category-happy","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}