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Organization: No Conspiracy Here...
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A bit stale in the conversation, I realize, but I was meandering through the
archive, when I stumbled upon something intriguing...

Matteo De Luigi wrote:

> > As sick as that sounds, I think it's a pretty good idea... in a sick sort
> > of way.  Think about it.  It's probably the world's most portable BASIC
> > interpreter.
> Wasn't that the ZX Spectrum's Sinclair BASIC ?
> There are emulators for a plethora of platforms. Ok, they won't work
> if you are on a text-only terminal, but the Z-machine won't run on a
> 16k Speccy, so...

Now, I don't know if it'll work in 16k (doubt it, but you never know), but if you
look in if-archive/infocom/interpreters/spectrum...there's a Z80 interpreter!


