Re: Apple Z5 interpreter...

[Lockar <lockar@apple2forever.DOTorg>]

   What is Z5?

     -Lockar


In article
<Pine.LNX.4.62.0506251613001.2712@static-141-149-129-16.buff.east.verizo
n.net>, Lyrical Nanoha <LyricalNanoha@dosius.net> wrote:

> I have written or ported a few games to Inform, and have considered trying 
> to port them to the Apple //e using Beyond Zork's Z5 interpreter...
> 
> The first game I ported had some cosmetic bugs, and the second, well, I 
> made sure to work around them.
> 
> But I'd like to be able to port games for which I might not have the 
> source.
> 
> I am wondering, if perhaps, I'm not a very good programmer, maybe it could 
> be possible to hack together a new z5 interpreter, along with some way to 
> create disk images to run it somewhat like "inftod64" for Commodore 
> 64/128, to make 1 or 2 disk images, which contain the game.  I would think 
> the interpreter would need to be a bit light, since there's only about 
> 20-24K for it if you chock both disks full.
> 
> Part of what brought this to mind was about the Z5 version of HLA 
> Adventure.