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Fillmore wrote:

> So, I'm writing a Z-Machine terp. It is not done. It's getting there. Now,
> I have some ideas of things I would like this terp to do, but I thought it
> might be a nice idea to find out if there are any features that other people
> on this newsgroup would like in a Z-Machine terp.
> I don't mean things that actually extend the Z-Machine, like better sound
> support or whatever, just nice extras, like blorb support, or optional
> features that you really like, like colour, or full Unicode support, or
> whatever.

Blorb might be nice, just so I (on my PC) can finally try the example game.

Unicode, I'd consider more important, as this community is extremely
multinational.

A feature I'd really like to see, though, would be an option to let the
Z-Machine do file I/O without my intervention.  That is, for me, the user, to
permit the game to access files without my being asked if the filename is
correct.

Other, more trivial features would include full, by-the-spec sound support, full
v6 implementation, user-level color configuration, and...that's probably pretty
much it.

[...]


