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Fillmore wrote:

> I want to upgrade the Z-Machine. Not a lot, but I have some ideas that would
> be easy and (I think) worthwhile.
> Can anyone come up with a good reason it shouldn't be upgraded?

Other than getting stuck in the infinite loop of Glulx and the v6 Z-Machine of
"no games means few interpreters, which means no games," none.  As long as
changes are "in the spirit of" (whatever that means) the original concepts, I
don't see a problem at all, besides that.


> And more importantly, is
> anyone willing to discuss the matter?

I'm there.  I've been looking for a reasonable excuse to start digging through
the Z-Machine innards.


