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Nikita wrote:

> http://www.theunderdogs.org/game.php?name=Fooblitzsky

Uhm...Not that I would download such a thing, or suggest that anyone
else do so, but if one were to download it, one would notice the fairly
standard Infocom-like file structure of an interpreter executable and a
compiled gamefile.  However, this gamefile is not any Z-Machine
version.  I vaguely remember reading something about a new interpreter
(v6 prototype, maybe?) that needed to be written, as well as a ZIL
spinoff created.

Does anyone have any specifications on either of these?  I'm vaguely
thinking of reverse engineering it, but I definitely don't have the
time at the moment.

Oh, and if I had actually downloaded a copy of Fooblitzky, and played
it, I would have greatly enjoyed it, and also would have thought that
the Chance Man looks a heck of a lot like my imagined picture of the
Pissing Bandit...

Also, on a related note, was Cornerstone produced using a Z-Machine?


